Information about Bets Taking Into Account Odds for Tennis

Pay attention to the common and profitable types of bets on the Australian Open. Consider the first tennis tournament Grand Slam in 2016.

Understanding all available bet types is a key condition for increasing profitability when placing bets on tennis, since it allows you to choose the ideal way to place a bet. The main type of bet on tennis is the bet on the winner of the match. In this case, you bet that the tennis player will win his opponent and pass into the next round.

Consider, for example, the match of the 2016 Hunday Hopman Cup tournament between Marrey and De Schepper. The British tennis player won this match for 2 sets with a result of 6:2 6:2. Given the closing odds for the match of 1.05 and 13.03 respectively, putting $100 on the victory of Murray, you would receive $105 with a net profit of $5.

Placing bets on obvious favorites, as in the example considered, means very low incomes with a proportionally high risk, and it is here that you should pay attention to the bets taking into account the odds.

Bets given the odds. Why?

When a clear favorite is playing against an outsider, low odds are usually not unattractive to players who do not see much sense in risking part of their bankroll for a small potential profit.

To equalize the differences in the skill of tennis players and to equalize the match, bookmakers offer betting markets taking into account handicaps that relate to the number of games that a player must win in accordance with expectations.

Thus, the chance of winning any player – the odds for the handicap – is as close to 50% as possible.

By placing bets taking into account odds, you predict not the actual winner, but rather the quality of the tennis player’s game. To determine whether a bet is a winning bet, the handicap applies to the final score.

Markets for odds with regard to odds are of value when placing a bet on a match with a clear favorite. This can be achieved by putting on a favorite with a negative handicap or an outsider with a positive handicap.

In the match of Murray against De Schepper, for example, the main handicap was minus 5 games per British tennis player, and plus 5 games in French.

Positive and negative odds

In a match for which odds are taken taking into account odds, the outsider takes advantage of several games, i.e., a positive head start, and the favorite gets a backlog in a few games, i.e., a negative head start, which makes it possible to equalize the differences in the quality of the game.

Bets on a player who wins more matches after applying odds are winning bets, regardless of which player won the match.

Let’s return to the example of the match between Murray and De Schepper. Mazza won 6 games in the first set and 6 games in the second set. De Schepper managed to win 2 games in the first set and 2 more games in the second set. In the end, we got 12 games for Murray and 4 for his French opponent.

The bet on the victory of Murray with a handicap of -5 would be winning, because 12 – 5 = 7, which is more than 4. The final result for this bet is thus 7:4, which also has the name “compensate for odds”. Conversely, thebetson De De Schepper’s win with a + 5 handicap would be a losing one, because even with 5 additional games, De Schepper still loses 12-9.

Thanks to the odds of 1,775 for Marrey’s victory with the $5 margin, the income at $100 would then be $177.5 with a net profit of $77.5, compared to $5 for the winner match.

Other benefits of bets based on odds

To see a list of available betting markets, taking into account the odds for the tennis match, log into your account, go to the match of interest and select the betting market, taking into account the odds on which you want to place the bet, in the drop-down menu.

In addition to the basic odds, several positive and negative odds are offered for the match, from +/- 4 to +/- 6, which will allow players to decide which market of odds with the odds is the best odds. You can change the odds (also known as “buying”), but get lower ratios, or increase the odds (selling), getting a higher profit.

And last but not least, remember that betting markets with odds allow you to return your bet. When using integers for handicaps, as in the case of Marrey’s match against De Schepper, the final result, given the odds, may be tied. In this case, all bets are canceled and players are refunded the bet amount.