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Tennis Betting Tips
Tennis, like horseracing, is a sport which attracts punters serious about making consistent profits from their betting. The sport is attractive due to the simplicity of the betting markets (particularly match betting markets, where there are no draws) as well as the very stable long term trends observed in the sport.
If you’ve been restricting your tennis betting to placing bets on your favourite players at grand slams, then the following tennis betting tips will help you increase the profits you generate from betting on this sport.
Pick Your Tournaments: If you’re going to be betting on tennis, think carefully about which tournaments you will bet on. Lower tier tournaments tend to be far more unpredictable than grand slams and masters tournaments, where a handful of players tend to dominate for long periods of time. Also be aware that women’s tennis tends to be more unpredictable than men’s tennis with upsets of seeded players the norm rather than the exception.
Surface: Pay attention to attention being used for a tennis tournament. Hard courts favour players with strong service games, grass courts help players with good serve and volley games, while clay courts are usually mastered by players with endurance and an arsenal of spin shots. Also pay attention to the way the weather may make a surface play, as courts may become faster or slower depending on the climatic conditions and this can easily play into players’ strengths and weaknesses.
Favourites: There is a very strong bias in favour of favourites in men’s tennis tournaments, with the top players in the sport achieving very high success rates against lower ranked players. Consequently odds on these players in the match betting markets tend to be quite low. As a result, punters often parlay these players, placing several bets in the various tennis betting markets linked to the favourite winning. These needn’t be high stakes bets, and can generate excellent returns when a favourite comes through.
Stats: When placing match bets it is always worthwhile to have a look at the head-to-head record between two players. Some lower ranked players have the ability to consistently beat higher ranked opponents, whilst one player will often dominate another over a long period of time. Knowing how two players have fared in their previous meeting can not only help you place more educated match bets, but also assist in placing winning bets in the tennis match betting markets.
Odds Comparisons: To maximize your profits from tennis and stay ahead of the book you’ll need to get your hands on the best prices for all your selections. A quality odds comparison service will point you in the direction of the best price for any given tennis match. Odds comparisons also put you in touch with over a dozen free bet offers which can be used to bet on tennis, as well as providing exposure for the widest selection of tennis betting markets.
Exchange Betting: Opening an account with a betting exchange will add more weapons to your tennis betting arsenal. At a basic level, using an exchange will allow you to ‘lay’ or bet against players winning a particular tennis match. You can also use the betting exchange to trade prices, backing players at high odds and laying them when their prices contract. Traders will also take advantage of artificially low odds on top players to lay them when their odds are low before backing them when their prices climb to lock in a profit. To learn more about lay betting read our guide to betting exchanges.
Hedge Bets: You can play both sides of the net when you place your tennis bets online. There are dozens of hedging strategies to experiment with, for example laying the underdog and backing half this stake on the same player winning in the maximum number of sets at a bookmaker. Hedging allows you to cover various contingencies in a match, allowing you to insure your primary bet and increase your odds of generating a profit from your tennis bets.
Avoid ‘Guaranteed’ Strategies: The Internet is awash with guaranteed tennis betting systems going for up to $100. Most of these claim to allow you to bet ‘blind’ – without any tennis knowledge or having to watch the sport. If these systems worked, their purveyors would not have to resort to flogging them online for hundreds of dollars.
There are punters who make an income out of tennis, but they achieve this by mixing and matching strategies, staying informed on player form and results, doing careful research before they bet and trusting their instincts.
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