Betting Exchange Betfair will probably be your best port of call this week to get the most from your tennis betting. Outright markets on these types of tennis tournaments are not always fully covered by regular online bookmakers, but you can always find someone to match your bet at a betting exchange. The advantage is, that you can probably pick up better odds as you are, for all intents and purposes betting against other punters. Betfair, one the most highly recommended Betting Exchanges are currently offer a £25 No Loss Bet for new accounts, which means that if your first bet on a new account loses, then Betfair will refunded the stake up to the value of £25 so there is nothing really to lose by opening an account. There are two WTA tournaments going on this week, which provide some good betting opportunities. After a thrilling fortnight at Wimbledon some of the players are back in action as the season continues. Most of the top stars are taking a breather, so that opens the door for some good tennis betting action, simply because the quality in these smaller tournaments is not as high, and the top seeded players generally take the honours. This is in contrast to the high profile tournaments where there are so many top players in there, it is hard to pick out a winner. The outright markets on these are not always fully covered by regular online bookmakers, so it is well worth checking out Betting Exchanges like BetFair to pick up the best prices for these smaller tennis tournaments.
One of the best betting tips that you can take for this, is simply casting your eyes over the top four seeds for these kind of tournaments. The top two seeds are always kept apart until the final, so that there is some hope of an interesting final. In Budapest, where the players have had to make the switch back from grass to clay, the seeds have been pretty comfortable in their progress so far. At the GDF Suez Grand Prix, big hitting Russian Alisa Kleybanova, who is showing great signs of improvement since the first of the year, was ranked as top seed. She is 27th in the World rankings, and so that gives you a good idea of the quality levels at the tournament. She, naturally would have been one to back here, especially after she won her first WTA title back in February in Malaysia, a mental barrier through which it is important to break. She will be disappointed with her second round exit to the unseeded Patti Schnyder though, who was the defeated finalist here last season. The second seed for the tournament is Alexandra Dulgheru, and the young Romanian definitely has the makings of a future star, and she really needs to push on this season. Successfully defended her Warsaw Open title earlier in the year, and gave Justin Henin a really tough run for her money when they met recently. If she comes through her second round match, which was suspended at one set all due to bad light, she will be worth taking. The interruption may just suit Dulgheru after being on the back foot. Defending champion is Agnes Szavay, but one of the best looking bets is eighth seed Polona Hercog who trains in the city. The young Slovenian is a fantastic young talent in the mould of Britain’s Laura Robson. With Kleybanova gone, that leaves her quarter of the draw wide open and is worth getting behind.
The level of challenges at Bastad, Sweden, also on clay, is a bit tougher than those in Budapest. You have more of the world’s higher ranked players here. The seeds have been doing pretty well, and at the quarter final stage, the most prominent player to feature is Italy’s Flavia Pennetta, who has been ruthless at the start of the tournament. The top five seeds are all through to the quarters, and Pennetta, who made the semi finals last year, looks a much stronger player and well worth her 1st seed ranking. She has only dropped four games en route to the quarter finals, Her first real contest should come from fourth seed Gisela Dulko in the semi finals, who is great at these kind of tournaments, struggled a bit to get through to the quarter finals against Tatjana Malek, having to save a couple of match points. Third seed Lucie Safarova is well worth looking at, although she had a battle on her hands and had to step up a gear to make a comeback against Karolina Sprem. Safarova’s highlight of the season was reaching the final in Paris where she lost to Elena Dementieva, but she did beat Flavia Pennetta along the way there. Safarova recently picked up three consecutive quarter final appearances at tournaments, and is fully capable of pulling of an upset here. She isn’t one of the prime runners when it comes to tennis betting at big events, but is looking good here. One of the other strongest bets will be feisty French woman Aravane Rezai. The World number twenty pulled off a surprising victory over Venus Williams in the final of the Madrid Open (and she beat Safarova in the semi’s). Always a threat in these kind of tournaments, and is usually well priced to back.
July 7th, 2010 / Lee A Jackson - Category: Sports Betting
