2026 French Open Women’s Singles Analysis

French Open Women’s singles – a dig into the last ten years The 2026 clay court season has already provided a few shocks on the women’s side, and next week we will see the start of the second Grand Slam of the year in France at Roland Garros, writes Dave Renham. In this article I am going to look for pointers from previous French Open tournaments, looking at some facts and stats centred around the Women’s Singles event. The data collected are from the last ten years of this event. I will also give some thoughts about the 2026 renewal. Finals Let me start by analysing the finals over the past ten years. Top seeds have done well, reaching six finals, but when looking at the decade as a whole, we see a spread of player rankings making the final. The graph below shows this fact neatly:     As …

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Tennis Profits System Builder: A First Look

Tennis Profits System Builder: a game changer?

We’ve been working hard on a new tool that I hope will be a big success. It’s a pre-play (i.e. before matches start) system builder that essentially allows you to research and save angles based on any number of our current ‘match stats’ page statistics. In the video below, I walk you through the new tool – which is still in development, expected release date is early June – and share a simple angle that proved profitable over the past year. Please note that once the System Builder is live, we will look to extend its functionality to include, for example, pre-play ‘set and forget’ lays as well as, I hope, some in-play angle research as well. Results are quoted to the last Betfair price available before each match started, with a 2% commission deducted from winning bets. Have a look, and please do share any feedback in the comments …

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Looking Ahead to the ATP Clay Season

Male tennis player stretching to reach a return.

Looking forward to the Clay Court Season This is my favourite time of the year for many reasons, writes Dave Renham. Firstly, there is usually an uptick in the weather and secondly, we have longer days with lighter evenings. There is also hope that the upcoming summer will be a warm and glorious one, although that, as we know, does not always come to fruition, here in the UK at least. My third reason for loving this time of the year is that it is the start of the clay court season. All the clay court tournaments starting in April and May are held in Europe which is great for traders and bettors as the matches are at normal times during the day. As mentioned in a previous article, I am not a fan of trading late at night or early in the morning. In addition, of all the surfaces, …

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Australian Open Women’s Singles: 10 Year View

Australian Open Women’s singles – a dig into the last ten years The new tennis season is starting to click into gear and in a few days’ time we will see the start of the first Grand Slam of the year in Australia, writes Dave Renham. In this article I am going to look for pointers from previous Australian Open tournaments specifically in the Women’s Singles event. The data collected is from the last ten years. I will also offer some thoughts about this year’s event. A Quick look at the Men’s Singles Before looking at the women’s event, let me talk about the Men’s Singles briefly. Essentially, the Men’s Singles at the Australian Open has tended to go to script. There have only been four different winners across those ten years – all of the ‘big three’ have won it (Djokovic five times, Federer twice and Nadal once) and …

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US Open and ChatG_TP

Tennis ball on the line of a tennis court.

Let’s start with the caveats, writes Matt Bisogno. I am not a tennis expert, though I do know some things about it (more every week) and have a good grasp on how to use data most of the time. And, for its part, ChatGPT is still prone to hallucination even when expressly instructed not to. But having fun with data is in my DNA and so, with the US Open inbound, I thought I’d share a little bit of my own play. The most important caveat is caveat emptor: buyer beware, every man/woman for him/herself. Wimbledon fun It started with a similar exercise I undertook before Wimbledon began. On that occasion, I wasn’t strict enough with my prompts while using ChatGPT, an AI chatbot with some impressive abilities as well as some annoying shortcomings. It has been programmed to favour speed and a complete answer over taking time and flagging …

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