Best Tennis Bet Types

Tennis is a hugely popular sport, with its big events like Wimbledon and the US Open drawing in many real-life and TV spectators every single year. The big tennis stars are some of the best paid athletes in the world, and many fans want a piece of the action too. This is why betting on tennis online has become so popular, with all the best online betting sites offering lots of different tennis markets.

But with so many different options to choose from when placing online bets on tennis, it can be difficult to know where to start. This is especially true for those who are new to the world of online tennis betting.

Well, one of the simplest ways to start off is with the match markets. These markets allow you to simply bet on who you think will win each game. It’s a simple way to bet on tennis, but the problem is that it can be quite hard to find value in these bets as the favorites always have short odds.

If you want to find the best bets, you usually need to look at other markets, and the handicap betting market is very popular for tennis fans. With a handicap bet, you’re basically betting on one player to win the match, but with a game or set advantage or disadvantage.

For example, if a high-ranked player like Nadal is playing a lower-ranked player like Tsonga, Nadal is the clear favorite. You can have a -5 game handicap bet on him, meaning that your bet will win if he wins the overall match by 6 games or more. Equally, you could bet on Tsonga with a +5 handicap, and he’ll start the match with a virtual 5 game lead.

As well as handicap betting, you can also take an interest in total games markets. This is like the over/under markets in football betting. It’s basically betting on how many games you think will be played during the course of a match. You can get great odds in this market, especially in games that seem to be too close to call.

You can even go much deeper, betting on individual sets or even individual games and trying to pick the right score, the number of points, and who will win a tie break. However, while the odds for these specific markets can be tempting, you have quite a low chance of winning these kinds of precise bets, so the best types of bets for online tennis betting tend to be the handicap and total games markets.