Tennis is the second most popular sport in bookmakers after football. Live betting on tennis is very popular, as a tennis match is much more dynamic than football, and the change of events here happens much more often. Players who do not want to wait for a goal to be scored in football prefer to bet on the winners of games and sets right during the match.
Types of tennis bets
Outcome bet. As you might guess, this bet offers to guess which of the two tennis players will be the winner of this match. The smallest margin and the highest betting limits are usually offered to win, however, you are unlikely to find a significant dispersion of odds here. According to statistics, this type of betting is the most popular among players.
Handicap. When betting on handicaps, you are trying to guess the approximate number of games that one tennis player will win against another. Handicap in tennis is plus and minus. Plus is given to outsiders, and minus to favorites. For example, if you bet on the victory of one of the athletes with a handicap of -3.5, you need him to win at least 4 games in total. When betting on a +3.5 handicap, you have to worry that the player you bet on does not lose more than 3 games in total. Handicap by sets means that you make a prediction for the winner of the pair, taking into account a specific plus or minus set handicap.
Total. Total refers to the total number of games scored by both tennis players in a match. You can bet that there will be more or less than the number offered in the line.
Sets account. A set in tennis is the largest unit of score in a match. The bet on the score by sets offers to guess the final score by sets. For example, by betting on 2-0, you predict that the player you bet on will win both sets.
Other rates. Many bookmakers limit their tennis line to the above positions, however, some gambling establishments, seeking to please customers more often, sometimes significantly inflate their tennis line. So, you can bet on handicap, total and the winner in the first, second and all other sets, the winner of each individual game, the presence of a tie-break in the match, the number of break points and so on.
Benefits of betting on tennis
The ability to track the form of players. If in the case of the same football it is extremely difficult to track the physical and psychological shape of the 11 main players of each team, then in tennis this issue is much easier to solve – just watch a couple of matches of a certain player, and you can already draw far-reaching conclusions about his current form.
A large number of comebacks during the match. Some of you, of course, will attribute this fact to the disadvantages of this sport, but people who are really good at betting will undoubtedly confirm that this is a very good feature in terms of betting. The greatest number of phenomenal comebacks can be observed in women’s tennis. However, there are also enough miracles in men’s clay tournaments.
Competition regularity. You can always bet on tennis: at any time, on any day of the week.Unlike football, where each championship has a couple of significant breaks of two or three weeks, the tennis season has only one break at the very end of the calendar year, and even then 3-4 middle-level tournaments fit in these 14 days, so Tennis fans will never be bored. Even on January 1-2, most often at least one tournament will begin.
Disadvantages of Tennis Betting
Uncertainty of the start and end times of fights. If in team sports (as, indeed, in most individual sports), the start time of fights is determined a few days before their start, then in the case of tennis, the situation is much more complicated. At each tournament, fights start one after another, and until the previous pair finishes their match, the other will not start. That is why we can only say for sure about the beginning of the game session – all subsequent fights can be delayed for an arbitrarily long time, and sometimes completely rescheduled for the next day. The same applies to the end of the fight.
Dependence on the weather. One of the significant factors affecting the results of tennis matches is the weather. Despite all the development of modern technologies, the vast majority of tennis matches take place on open courts, which means that the weather at any time can make its own adjustments to the course of the match.
Features of single sports. It is much safer to bet on team sports than on single sports, because in a team game the poor psychological or physical condition of one player often does not have a decisive influence on the fight. In the case of tennis, everything is much more complicated – moral depression, poor physical or psychological shape of one of the players automatically puts an end to his chances of winning. What is most annoying, it is possible to determine these flaws only after a few games have passed.