Well Andy Murray’s recent clay success has shaken up many punters’ approach to the French Open 2016 Men’s Singles Betting no doubt. Murray took the Rome title out of the hands of world number one Novak Djokovic and that send the Briton to Roland Garros with some renewed confidence you would imagine and it makes the picture look a little more competitive for the French Open betting.
Without that recent success for Andy Murray, the French Open would have looked little more than a two horse race at the end of the day between Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal. Djokovic is the outright favourite and at an odds on price as well at 4/5 with online betting site Bet365. Djokovic is the one with the running form at the French Open, not having fallen short of the semi final in any of the last five editions of the Roland Garros event. However, despite having been to the final in three of the last four seasons of the French Open, this is the one Grand Slam title that eluded him.
Djokovic lost his first French Open Final against Rafael Nadal in 2012, then again when the two met in the 2014 final Djokovic was on the losing end. He was hot favourite in last year’s Final but he was taken down by an inspired Stan Wawrinka, who played the bravest game that anyone has ever played against Djokovic probably, to the point where Djokovic didn’t know how to handle his opponent.
Djokovic has won the five ATP titles this season, including the Australian Open. He took the Madrid ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title as well on clay, so that was why his defeat against Murray in the final of Rome on clay was a little surprising. Overall, heading to Roland Garros he has a 37-3 match record running for the season. You can pretty much bank on him being in the semi finals of the draw, it’s just whether he can covert from there. Djokovic just has the reserves of fight, resilience, stamina and class that no-other player on the ATP has.
Rafael Nadal, the French Open great, has made something of a welcome return to form this term. He has won the two titles this season, the Barcelona Open on clay and the big Monte Carlo Rolex Masters on clay as well. That should have shaped him up well for the recent Madrid and Rome titles, but the Spaniard fell short losing in the semi finals of Madrid to Andy Murray and then he lost in the quarter finals of Rome to Djokovic. So he is just coming up a little short at the moment, but he is looking for his tenth French Open title. Yes, his tenth. He has won nine of the last eleven editions of the French Open and holds a remarkable 70-2 win/loss match record there. Can he bounce back?
Now, more than ever you have Andy Murray in the picture. His victory over Nadal in Madrid and then his triumph in the Final of Rome against Djokovic has seen bookmakers slash his odds of winning the French Open 2016. Murray has been solid at the French Open in the last two seasons, making semi final berths. He has never been to the final though, but this could be his best chance to break new ground. He is a better hard court player than clay, but that having been said, his clay status his improved over the last couple of seasons. He will naturally have a better shot at landing the title if he can avoid Djokovic until the showcase match.
Outside of the big three you really only hove defending champion Stan Wawrinka, Kei Nishikori and Roger Federer. Federer has had a season disrupted by injury and isn’t too likely to make the grade.
French Open 2016 betting odds
Novak Djokovic 4/5, Rafael Nadal 4/1, Andy Murray 4/1, Stan Wawrinka 12/1, Kei Nishikori 25/1, Roger Federer 33/1, Dominic Thiem 40/1, Gael Monfils 50/1, 66/1 bar
French Open 2016 Top Sixteen Seeds
- Novak Djokovic
- Andy Murray
- Roger Federer
- Stan Wawrinka
- Rafael Nadal
- Kei Nishikori
- Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
- Tomáš Berdych
- Milos Raonic
- Richard Gasquet
- Marin ?ili?
- David Ferrer
- David Goffin
- Gaël Monfils
- Dominic Thiem
- Roberto Bautista Agut
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French Open 2016 History and Stats
This is the 115th edition of the French Open and runs from May 5th through to June 5th. The difference between this and the other three Grand Slams is not just the surface, but that there is no tiebreak in the final set of the match. So that makes it arguably the toughest tennis competition of all, to triumph at. The first ever French Open was held in 1891 (known as the French Championships) and then it was only for amatur players who belonged to French tennis club. It was a Briton who actually won the first ever French Open, as H. Briggs (a Paris resident) landed it.
There was a break through the second World War years and in 1968, the French Open was first contested as the French Open in the newly formed Open Era of tournament. It was an Australian, Ken Rosewall who won that over fellow countryman Rod Laver on that occasion. France didn’t get its first home victory in the modern era until Yannick Noah beat Mats Wilander in the 1932 French Open final. The greats like Bjorn Borg, Ivan Lendl, Andre Agassi and Roger Federer have all won the title. Built the modern era great is Rafael Nadal, hands down.
Nadal is the record title holder at the French Open with his nine titles, which topped out Max Decugis who won it eight times in the amatuer era. Bjorn Borg is the next most successful player in the history of the French Open (modern era) with six titles including four consecutive ones between 1978 and 1981. In the modern era, only Mats Wilander, Ivan Lendl and Gustavo Kuerten (3) along with Jan Kodes, Jim Courier and Sergi Bruguera (2) have won it multiple times. Ken Rosewall and Rod Laver are the only two players to have won the French Open in both the amatur and Open eras.
French Open 2016 Prediction
The main train of thought would be, how long can you keep the best player in the world from winning a title? We are talking about Novak Djokovic and his misses in the final of the French Open. It’s not as if he hasn’t been to the final, so he has a pretty solid record there over the last few years without having won it. He should be a lock for the final four and you just get the feeling that sooner or later it has to happen for him. But then again, neither Pete Sampras or Boris Becker managed to win it, so it has eluded some of the game’s greats.
Andy Murray’s victory over him may have come at the right time for Murray in heading to Roland Garros, but it could ultimately work against the him and the rest of the field. Djokovic won’t take a defeat lightly at all and has probably done everything in his power to fix that in the next event, which is the French Open for him. That makes him more dangerous because he will be out for revenge and to prove a point that he is the best in the world.
So we would still have to stick with the outright favourite here and the thought of Nadal making it back to the Roland Garros final is a real treat. He has done enough this season and has had enough time to get his clay feet going to make a decent run. What’s a decent run? Well the quarters for him and then his adrenaline and motivation amps up as he could close in on that remarkable tenth Grand Slam title. Decent each way bet.
