£1000 of BOOKIES FREE BETS
Wimbledon Tennis Betting
It is the most famous and historic of them all, but if you want a wager on Wimbledon Tennis Betting then do it with
Bet365 & claim up to £200 in Free Bets. That online bookie has a great website and more Wimbledon betting options than anyone else.
Wimbledon tennis betting odds just ace
Wimbledon Tennis betting offers many more options than just betting on who will win the tournament. Our top rated online bookmaker Bet365 offers that and plenty of other betting opportunities on Wimbledon fortnight.
You may not see a row of bookmakers' boards round Centre Court, more is the pity, but at Wimbledon tennis betting is definitely booming. Wimbledon may be terminally traditional, but the strict dress code and overall formality that kept Agassi away in his early years does not deter the betting public from wagering millions on single matches at Wimbledon.
Even a first round match between little known players attracts hundreds of thousands of pounds in Wimbledon betting turnover. But, in June 2009, a first round match that did not have television coverage between America's Wayne Odesnik and Mr Jurgen Melzer from Austria caused bookies' alarm bells to ring as it attracted even more wagers than normal.
Online bookmakers quickly spotted the abnormal volumes of Wimbledon tennis betting not just on a victory for Melzer, but for Melzer to win in straight sets. They smelt a rat and closed the betting before the match started.
Melzer won 6-1, 6-4, 6-2. When news of the unusual betting volumes broke, the British press was full of stories of suspected match fixing. Ultimately they discovered that Odesnik had travelled to the UK on the Saturday before the match and had been to O'Neill's (a public house in Earls Court, London) at the weekend. He had suffered a muscle injury to his thigh prior to his match on Tuesday.
Odesnik was emphatic that no one had approached him in a bid to corrupt the outcome or profit from the match and vehemently denied any wrongdoing. He was not prosecuted. The bookmakers were pragmatic. It merely appeared that some of the betting public simply had more information than they did.
It was not the first and will not be the last time that undisclosed injuries are behind surprise results. In 2007 the Russian player, Nicolav Davydenko, who was then rated number four in the world, lost extremely unexpectedly to the relatively unknown Argentinian player, Martin Vassallo Arguello in Sopot, Poland. The result prompted allegations of match fixing but Davydenko disclosed that he had suffered an injury to his foot and, after a lengthy enquiry, in 2008 both players were cleared.
If you are not party to insider information on the health of Wimbledon tennis players, there are many other ways to win money on Wimbledon tennis betting. Andrew Murray is certainly the best hope that Britain has had at Wimbledon for a very long time. The most recent British victor at Wimbledon was Fred Perry back in 1936.
UK bookmakers are predicting a massive demand for Wimbledon tennis betting as patriotic punters will probably place a plethora of tournament and individual match winning bets on Murray. Such high volumes of partisan punting may distort the market and provide opportunities for more logical Wimbledon tennis betting elsewhere.
UK punters should look beyond their desire for a UK winner to the realities of the form. In January 2010 Murray fought his way to the final of a Grand Slam tournament, the Australian Open in Melbourne. He had the misfortune to encounter an on form Roger Federer in the final. Murray lost in straight sets. Prior to that match, Murray had beaten Federer six of the ten times he had played him, but in the 2008 final of the US Open, Federer had, again, easily beaten Murray. It was Murray's first Grand Slam final.
If any UK potential punter is hoping that Murray stands a chance of beating Federer (or Nadal) at Wimbledon, after all, he had won the majority of matches against Federer prior to the Australian Open, think again. There are two major factors you need to bear in mind before succumbing to Murray mania and making your Wimbledon tennis bet on patriotic rather than logical lines.
Firstly, Federer is renowned for reserving his best efforts for the biggest matches in Grand Slam tournaments. Beating Federer in a Cincinatti Masters tournament is one thing. Stealing so much as a single set from him when he's fired up and on form in the final at Wimbledon is quite another. A true champion, he knows when to pull out the stops and when to leave a little in the locker for another, more meaningful, day.
Secondly, tennis players have something in common with racehorses. Some perform better on one surface than others. Tim Henman, for example, was billed as a grass specialist and yes, his best results were on grass, but he sadly failed to score in the serious league on grass or anything else.
You can easily waste your money betting on the most highly-rated horse in a race, just because it is the most highly rated horse, if you forget that it has achieved all its wins (and consequently high rating) on good to firm going when, after a typical British week of persistent precipitation, the going for the race you are betting on has become soft. Similarly, there are certain horses that run brilliantly on turf but cannot reproduce the same level of performance on synthetic, all weather race tracks which provide a very different surface.
The same applies for tennis players. Not only do players, like horses, have to be able to move well on a surface, all tennis players will tell you that the surface of the court has a very significant influence on the speed and way in which the ball they are chasing bounces and spins whenever it touches the ground.
Looking back at Murray's past form to date, he has only reached Grand Slam finals on hard courts and never on grass. Yes, Murray won Queens (which is on grass) in June 2009, but he didn't exactly encounter the standard of opponent that he will face at Wimbledon. He beat America's James Blake in the final. The bearded Blake was ranked sixteenth in the world at the time and was the highest rated opponent Murray encountered in the entire tournament.
In the same year Murray met Andy Roddick in the semi finals at Wimbledon and lost to the man whose lack of Grand Slam success is being blamed for a growing disaffection with tennis in the US.
In the previous year, 2008, Murray met Rafael Nadal in the quarter finals at Wimbledon and lost. It wasn't much of a battle either. Nadal went on to win that year in an epic final that floored the mighty Federer.
With this form in mind it is extraordinary that, in March 2010, UK based bookmakers were offering Federer at 6/4 to win the tournament, Andrew Murray at 3-1 and Rafael Nadal at 4-1. Is this the result of partisan, patriotic punting or do the bookmakers know of extra damage to Nadal's knees? Whenever Andrew Murray hits Wimbledon, there has to be an opportunity for pragmatic punters to profit by using sense rather than sentiment in Wimbledon tennis betting. As it turned out, Federer flopped and Nadal beat Murray in the semi-final. Nadal then went on to win his second Wimbledon title in 2010, beating the Czech and rank outsider Tomas Berdych in straight sets in the final.
In 2011 The Men's Final was won by Novac Djokovic. He was the in-form player going into the championship but surely he could not defeat Nadal on grass? Despite being 11/8 to Nadal's 4/7 to win the final, he did it with ease in four sets. It was Djokovic's first Wimbledon Title and capped a fantastic run of form. The Women's Title of that year witnessed a major turn-up when 2004 heroine Maria Sharapova, a long odds-on shot going into the final day to lift the trophy, was beaten in straight sets by the Czech 21-year-old Petra Kvitova.
What has made Wimbledon the most prized scalp on the pro tennis players' circuit? History is part of the appeal. First held in 1877, Wimbledon is easily the world's oldest tennis tournament and arguably the world's most prestigious. It is the only one of the four Grand Slam tournaments to be held on grass, the original surface that gave ‘lawn tennis' its name. Held over two weeks at the end of June and beginning of July, the tournament is a major feature of the UK's sporting calendar. It is held at the All England Tennis and Croquet Club in the London suburb of Wimbledon two weeks after the Queens Club Championships which are widely regarded as a Wimbledon warm-up. So what's the betting Wimbledon Tennis is still going strong in another 150 years? It must be short odds with the bookies.
£1000 of BOOKIES FREE BETS