Profiting from the Men’s US Open

Trading a tennis match in a full stadium

Qualifying for the 2025 US Open starts on Monday 18th August with the first main draw games beginning on the 24th August. For the first part of this article, I will be focusing on pre-match betting, while the second part will discuss some possible trading strategies.   Betting Angles The good news for tennis punters (rather than traders) is there are plenty of different markets on offer across the multitude of bookmakers. There is the outright win market, which is obviously the most popular, but there is also handicap betting both for games and sets, individual set betting, number of games in a match, first set score, and so on. And some bookmakers offer more niche bets connected with aces or double faults, which player will break serve first, etc. The problem with betting with bookmakers is the margin, or overround, built into their odds. This is their profit figure …

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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 …

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