Big tennis is the second most popular sport in the bookmakers’ offices after soccer. Live betting on tennis is very popular, as a tennis match is much more dynamic than soccer, and the change of events here occurs much more often. Players who do not want to wait until a goal is scored in soccer prefer to bet on the winners of games and sets right in the course of the match. That is why the volume of bets on tennis some days exceeds the volume of bets on soccer. How to bet on tennis, what should you know and what should you pay attention to? Let’s tell you about the most important things.
Advantages of tennis betting
The ability to trace the form of players
Whereas in the case of the same soccer, tracking the physical and psychological form of the 11 main players of each team is extremely difficult, in tennis this issue is much easier – just watch a couple of matches of a particular player, and you can already draw conclusions about his current form.
Analyzing tennis matches is a bit easier than in many team sports. It is very important in this regard not to miss the moment when the form goes from the peak to the peak stage. Typically, each stage of this endless cycle of form for tennis players lasts three to four weeks. As you gain experience in this difficult endeavor, you will undoubtedly learn how to properly assess the current as well as predict the upcoming condition of tennis players. In women’s tennis, the “critical days” of an athlete can affect the outcome quite a lot. Some players even keep a “menstrual calendar” of certain tennis players, though it is not clear how they do it.
A large number of comebacks in the course of the match.
Some of you, of course, will attribute this fact to the disadvantages of the sport, but really well versed in betting people will surely confirm that it is a very good feature for betting. The greatest number of phenomenal comebacks can be observed in women’s tennis. However, there are also plenty of miracles in men’s grassroots tournaments.
Regularity of Competitions
You can bet on tennis anytime, any day of the week. In contrast to soccer, where each championship has a couple of significant breaks in two or three weeks, the tennis season has only one break at the end of the calendar year, and even then within these 14 days there are 3-4 medium level tournaments, so tennis fans will never get bored. Even on January 1-2 most often at least one tournament will start.
Disadvantages of tennis betting
Uncertainty of opening and closing times
Whereas in team sports (and most individual sports) start times are fixed days before matches start, in tennis it is more complicated. At each tournament duels start one after another, and until the previous duo finishes their match, the other will not start.
That’s why it is possible to say exactly only about the beginning of the playing session – all the following matches can be postponed for any length of time, and sometimes even moved to the next day. The same applies to the end of a match. For example, if you are planning to withdraw your money as soon as possible after the bet is settled or to make another bet immediately, your plans can be significantly adjusted by the duration of the current match.
Dependence on Weather
Despite all the modern technology, the vast majority of tennis matches are played on outdoor courts, which means the weather can make adjustments at any time. It can happen that your bet will be up in the air for a couple of days, until the rains stop in Casablanca.
Also, you should not forget that after a rainfall the game can change completely, because the players have time to recover psychologically and start the game from scratch. Rains often work to the advantage of good serve players, who have the opportunity to regain their strength, make aces and once again produce hurricane games on their serve.
Singles Sports Features
Betting on team sports is a lot safer than betting on singles matches, because when it comes to playing as a team, one player’s poor mental and physical condition often has no real impact on the match. In the case of tennis it is more complicated – morale, poor physical or mental condition of one of the players automatically puts an end to his chances of winning. What’s unfortunate is that you can only spot these flaws after a few games have passed.
In addition, injuries also happen in tennis duels. And if in the team sports in such situations the substitution is made and the game continues, but in tennis an injury of one of the participants means his exit from the tournament. There is nothing more offensive than to lose a bet because of the failure of a tennis player, who was playing confidently up to that moment. We wish you to experience this awful feeling less often!
Types of bets on tennis
Outcome bet
As you can easily guess, this bet offers to guess which of the two tennis players will be the winner of the match. On the victory is usually offered the smallest margin and the highest betting limits, but a significant difference in odds you can hardly find here. According to statistics, this type of betting is the most popular among players.
Handicap
Betting on a handicap you try to guess the approximate number of games that one player will win over the other. Handicaps in tennis come in plus and minus handicaps. The plus hand is given on outsiders, and the minus hand on favorites. For example, if you bet on the victory of one of the sportsmen with a handicap -3.5, you need him to win at least 4 games in total. Betting on a handicap of +3.5 you need to make sure that the player you are betting on does not lose more than 3 games in total. A handicap by set means that you are predicting the winner of the pair, taking into consideration the specific plus or minus handicap of the sets.
Total
Total means betting on the total number of games gained by both tennis players in a match. You can bet on whether they will be more or less than the number offered in the line.
Set score
A set in tennis is the largest unit of score in a match. A bet on a set-by-set score offers to guess the final score of the games. For example, by betting 2-0, you are predicting that the player you bet on will win both sets.
Other bets
Many bookmaker offices limit their tennis line to the above positions, but some gambling establishments, seeking to please customers more often, sometimes offer unusual options. For example, bets on the handicap, total and winner in the first, second and all other sets, the winner of each individual game, the presence of the tiebreak in the match, the number of break points, and so on.