Tennis Betting Tips
Tennis can be one of the most profitable sports to bet on if you know what you’re doing. Many surveys have been taken by online betting forums and most of them have come up with the answer that sports handicappers find tennis to be the easiest sport to bet on. The reason why most handicappers prefer betting on tennis is because the competition is really spread out. In most sports any team can win on a given day, but in tennis you rarely see the best players lose until the later rounds in tournaments.
The good thing about tennis betting is that you won’t be able to bet on it everyday which should help you from going broke. You don’t need to bet on every tennis match in order to be profitable. The handicappers that bet on only the matches they feel they have an edge in typically win the most money. In sports like the NBA and NHL a lot of people go broke betting on games every night even when they don’t have an edge. Most sportsbooks will allow you to bet on all of the major tournaments around the world although some matched might not have odds if it’s really lopsided. If you’ve never bet on tennis before and you’re a little unsure about what you need to look for, you should read our tennis betting tips below.
* The first thing that I want you to be prepared for is the amount of juice you can expect to pay in you’re betting on heavy favourites. If Nadal is playing a match against an unranked opponent then you can expect to find tennis betting odds in the -500 – -1000+ range depending on how the public is betting the match. With odds like that you’re going to need to lay a big amount of money on the game in order to make anything significant. If you have the bankroll to take advantage of mismatches then I recommend it, but if you’re betting on a budget then you should look for match-ups where the public is more in the middle.
* If you’ve never handicapped a tennis match you need to follow these few simple rules. Initially you need to look-up the stats on the two players in the match. The most significant stats are the player’s most recent results and any head-to-head results from previous events. Once you’ve done that you should find out what type of tennis court the match will be played on. You might not think that the court matters much, but some players historically play bad on certain types of court surfaces.
* Some tennis players like Andy Roddick will play in tournaments with nagging injuries rather then sitout for the event. The problem with betting on these match-ups is that you don’t know how the player is going to perform. On one hand the player could come out and play well even with the injury, but on the other hand you need to worry about the injury being too much for the player to overcome. Generally I’ll avoid these matches and try to find a better one of the board for that day.