Serena Williams is more often than not the choice for people who bet on tennis – not like that shiftless Venus. However, the American will have to face a top-heavy draw on her potentially record-setting French Open campaign. Williams is the Queen of the Mountain in a loaded top half that also includes Victoria Azarenka and Angelique Kerber, as well as Timea Bacsinszky, Ana Ivanovic, Carla Suarez Navarro, Dominika Cibulkova, Madison Keys, Andrea Petkovic, the unseeded Eugenie Bouchard and French hope Kristina Mladenovic. Tennis betting experts may think such grouping is the death knell for a Serena who hasn’t been the same since missing out on the Grand Slam with her semi-final defeat at the US Open, but she should be highly motivated nonetheless.
Novak Djokovic’s tennis betting odds of finally winning a French Open may have improved thanks – indirectly – to Roger Federer’s withdrawal from Roland Garros. The Swiss would have been seeded third at the French Open; his pulling out of the tournament means that Rafael Nadal will be moved up to the 4th seeding. As a result, the chance of a quarterfinal rematch between Nadal and Djokovic becomes null and void – meaning that the Serb should in theory have no trouble making it past that stage. Nadal is known as the King of Clay and has won the French Open 9 times; or, if you prefer, nine more times than Djokovic.
Andy Murray’s tennis betting odds of winning the French Open – also known as Roland Garros – are better than ever following his defeat of world No 1 Novak Djokovic 6-3, 6-3 in Sunday's Rome Masters final. The French Open is the season's only clay-court Grand Slam – and Murray had already beaten the 'King of Clay' Rafael Nadal previously at Madrid, yet another sign of the Scotsman’s steady improvement on the red stuff. Murray’s victory in Rome was his first title in the Italian capital as well as his first win over the Serbian on the clay – and only his third from their last 15 clashes on any surface.
Tennis betting has probably seen more exciting matchups than Philipp Kohlschreiber vs. Íñigo ‘Montoya’ Cervantes, which takes place at Internazionali BNL D'Italia – aka Italian Open – on Tuesday May 10th. But wouldn’t it be awesome if right before the match the Spaniard told the German: “Hello. My name is Íñigo Cervantes. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” And then he would proceed to defeat the favorite Kohlschreiber (-550) in singles combat. Well okay, he would not really be avenging his father’s death, but he would be getting a measure of revenge for the loss that Kohlschreiber inflicted on him in 2010 in Auckland (6-2,6-3).
Sometimes tennis betting affords fans a one-in-a-lifetime opportunity, such as being able to watch World No. 1 Novak Djokovic face off against wunderkind Borna Coric – also known as “mini-Djokovic.” According to AP, top-seeded Djokovic will make his Madrid Open (aka Madrid Masters) debut on Wednesday against either clay Nicolas Almagro – which means his pretty good playing in clay courts and sadly not that he is a shape-shifter – or 19-year-old Croatian Coric. I’m keeping my fingers and my toes crossed that it will be the latter, just to see what happens if Djokovic beats himself.
Who to bet on tennis when the 2016 French Open championship rolls around on May 16th? The usual suspects are, well, the usual, as we are about to see below.
For the fans that Bet on Tennis this coming week we have the Jewel of the Mediterranean in the game of Tennis with the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters and the matches are played on clay courts at the Country Club of Monte Carlo. This is a very popular tournament with both the participants and the fans.
With the 2016 Australian Open Tennis Tournament coming to its end, we have the Men’s Final on this Sunday the 31st of January 2016 with the World No. 1 N. Djokovic facing the World No. 2 A. Murray to determine this year’s Champion with the match being played at the Rod Laver Arena in Down-Under Melbourne, Australia.
Continue ReadingThe 2016 Australian Open on the Men’s side for singles is down to the Semifinal round as the World No.1 N. Djokovic of Serbia faces the No. 2 A. Murray of Scotland with the match taking place on Thursday the 28th of January 2016.
Continue ReadingAs the 2016 Australian Tennis Open moves on, this Thursday the 28th of January 2016 we have the pleasure of previewing the Women’s semifinal match between the World’s No. 1 ranked S. Williams at 34 playing the Polish and World’s No. 3 ranked A. Radwanska at age 25 with the match being played at the Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia with no early odds available as of this writing.
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