Trading Volatility in Tennis is Big Business
Hi, my name is Dave Renham. I am a maths teacher by day, and in my spare time I bet and trade on horse racing and tennis. I’ve written almost a thousand data-driven articles on racing, many of them on geegeez.co.uk, run by the co-owner of TennisProfits.com, Matt Bisogno. He asked me to share a ‘pilot’ article on tennis, and here it is… In this first article in a regular (approximately every three weeks) series, I am going discuss tennis betting and/or trading. In recent years tennis betting and trading has grown massively, driven mainly by the live in-play markets where traders can back and lay players as the game is in progress. On Betfair around 90% of all tennis betting comes from in-play betting as compared to pre-match betting, and I am guessing some of the pre-match betting is also traders entering a position. Tennis lends itself to trading …
