Wimbledon Betting

The women’s single tournament at Wimbledon rarely fails to offer the excitement and drama that fans have come to expect and despite the dominance in recent years by the Williams sisters, there is plenty of talent in the women’s game and a surprise is never too far away. This is what is getting tennis fans so excited about the 2011 tournament, as some of the world’s top players see to be coming to the top of their form as we head towards the Championships. Here are some of the favourites for this year’s title.

Caroline Wozniacki

The Dane is the world number one but has never won a grand slam so many people find it hard to accept her as the game’s top player. Wozniacki is on fantastic form though and this could be her year. Undoubtedly a talented player, we will find out in the summer if she has the bottle for big occasions.

Vera Zvonareva

Another fantastically talented player who has not been able to transfer her talents to the Grand Slams. Vera was fantastic at Wimbledon last year but was hammered by Serena Williams in the final. Having stabilised her place in the world’s top 3, Vera is many people’s dark horse for the title.

Serena Williams

The younger of the Williams sisters has been the dominant force in Women’s tennis for a long time now and has won the last two Wimbledons. The fact that she does not enter many tournaments as the other players will guarantee that she will be fresh for the tournament.

Venus Williams

Not quite as successful as her younger sibling but more so at Wimbledon, Venus start every tournament at SW 19 among the favourites. This year will be no different and Venus will be looking to enter the twilight of her career with some success.

The summer means plenty of things to the people of the UK, holiday’s abroad, ice cream vans, Pimms, and, last but not least, the Wimbledon Tennis Championships. Held every year at the world famous All England Club in SW 19, the tournament is the oldest Tennis championships in the world and brings delight to tennis fans the world over. Some of the very best players in the history of the game have graced the courts at Wimbledon and this yeah looks like it should be another vintage year in South West London. The men’s draw is incredibly strong at the moment with the world’s top four players all looking as if they have a great chance of winning the title and there are a couple of dark horses who may have a say in things as well.

Andy Murray

The home favourite, Murray is already, at the age of 23, the best British player for 70 years. The hopes of a nation rest on his young shoulders but it has looked as if he can carry this weight in previous years. To be successful though he has to beat the players ahead of him.

Novak Djokovic

Arguably the best player in the world on current form, Djokovic won the Australian Open earlier this year and is gunning for his first Wimbledon title. The Serb is one of the world’s most popular players and can dominate players from the back of the court.

Roger Federer

Roger is generally accepted to be the greatest tennis player of all time and although his powers have seemed to be on the wane recently you can never discount the games most successful singles player when Wimbledon comes around. Even if he does not win the title, expect sparkling player from the Swiss maestro.

Rafael Nadal

A phenomenon, Nadal is the only player who has been able to question Federer’s dominance and has even surpassed him at Wimbledon recently. Rafa will be the overwhelming favourite for the tournament and his athletic and aggressive style will have many opponents beat before he even steps onto the court.

The Wimbledon Championship is one of the most prestigious tennis tournaments in the world and the oldest one of the four Grand Slam tournaments to be held each year. The history of Wimbledon has led the tournament to be considered the favourite Slam of many tennis fans, and the fact that it is the last tournament of the four to take place on grass shows that it considers tradition to be an incredibly important aspect of the tournament. Many of the world’s greatest ever players have played on Wimbledon’s famous Centre Court and many of them have seen their game founder under the gaze of the Wimbledon crowd. Wimbledon’s true legends though are those who saved their best form for the legendary court and carried off the oldest tennis championship in the world. Here are some of Wimbledon’s best ever players.

Pete Sampras

“Pistol” Pete Sampras is considered by many to be the greatest tennis player of all time combining the power game of many of his peers with a soft touch at the net that would have been at home in any era. Sampras has won more Wimbledon singles titles than any other man.

Bjorn Borg

Borg was one of the sports first real global superstars and although many consider the clay courts of Europe to be his real home, the Swede was just as dominant at SW 19. Borg won five consecutive Wimbledon finals before bowing out of the game at the age of just 26 in 1981.

Billie Jean King

For years the sport’s most renowned female player, King spanned the open era and the period before it winning titles here, there and everywhere. 20 titles at Wimbledon is no mean feat and the six singles titles she won are still remembered fondly almost half a century on.

Martina Navratilova

For year many people thought that King’s records would never be equalled but there was a player around at the end of Billie Jean King’s career who would goon to do just that.. Martina equalled King’s record in 2003 at the remarkable age of 46 and with 9 singles titles to her name as well there is a valid argument that Navratilova is one of the greatest athletes in any sport, never mind tennis.

Among sports betting, tennis places second only to football as the preferred venue for placing online wagers. With the popularity and prestige of the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament, there are excellent opportunities to play the field and come up with a profitable time wagering across the thirteen days of the tournament run. Following are some of the variety of wagering situations you may chose to use during the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament.

MatchUp Bets are popular as you can place your bets for either the expected winner or the expected loser. Payoffs vary between high amounts for the winner to decent payoffs if you picked the loser. Over/Under bets are made by referencing lists of point spreads as set up by the bookies. Your options are to place your bets on the spreads for either over or under the final scores. A Parley Bet can create real excitement for the tennis gambler. By linking different wagers together, even though one loss loses the bet, a full run of wins gives pays off huge dividends on the money wagered.

There are the more traditional betting venues and methods. Straight bets on the winners are always popular and backing an underdog player with high odds can rake in the profits if they manage to pull off an upset. The best way to maximize the profit margins on the Wimbledon Tennis tournament play is to take the time beforehand to study the players and their records. Compare their performances in individual play as opposed to their tournament performances.

Finally, take into consideration the type of surface being played on and who performs best on grass, which is the Wimbledon surface, or clay which is a more prevalent style of playing surface.

The Wimbledon Championship Tennis tournament has the distinction of being both the oldest as well as most popular Tennis venue in the world. This prestigious tournament has been in existence since 1877 and is one of the four Grand Slam tournaments. Wimbledon is distinctive in that it is still played on grass, the same game surface as tennis was originally played on.

Founded in 1868, the All England Croquet Club was situated near Worple Road in Wimbledon. By 1877 the club has added “and Lawn Tennis Club” to their name and codified the rules for the first Lawn Tennis Championship tournament. This codified set of rules has changed little in the history of the event, mostly concerned with such details as net and pole height and service line distances.

The club moved its grounds in 1922 to its current location on Church Road. The already famous “Central Court” setup was retained in the new grounds configuration although it took the addition of four new courts in 1980 before it was truly once more in the center.

The All England Lawn Tennis Club is constantly evolving to maintain the scope and prestige of the Wimbledon Championships. By 1997 a new Number 1 Court was constructed and the extra capacity Millennium Building which has more seats and a retractable roof to assure no weather related postponements of play.

The current lineup for the Wimbledon Tournament involves five distinct events. There are gender specific Singles and Doubles tournaments as well as a Mixed Doubles tournament. Coupled with a number of Junior tournaments as well, Wimbledon is the name in tennis and the venue to aspire to for one to consider themselves a Championship level tennis player.

Still favored to win the 2010 Wimbledon Tennis Tournament, Roger Federer has a lot of pressure to perform this year. With his win over Andy Roddick last year, Federer surpassed Champion Pete Sampras’ record for the most Grand Slam Championship wins. With 2009 bringing Roger his sixth Wimbledom win, he is in line to match Sampras’ seven win Wimbledon record. With only one Wimbleton title loss since 2003, when Federer lost to Rafael Nadal, these Titans of Tennis will be going head to head for the title again.

Both of these Tennis greats go into the 2010 Wimbledon at less than their peak levels of performance. Federer has not been quite matching his earlier fervor and Nadal is just coming back from a knee injury that kept him out of last year’s Wimbledon play. Still, skill and experience can often make the difference. Half the editors of Sports Illustrated consider Federer to be a shoo-in for the victory.

Federer has defeated Andy Murray several times recently and is not expected to have trouble surpassing the Brit again. A few sportswriters feel that Rafael Nadal will regain his prominence with this year’s tournament but they are among the minority. As well as taking Wimbledon this year, several sportswriters, including the New Zealand Southland Times’ Jamie Mackay feel that Federer will continue to be a winner for at least two more years beyond 2010 before age begins to take him out of the running for the top Wimbledon title wins. So long as he does not allow distractions to enter his game, Roger Federer is quite capable of achieving the victory this year at Wimbledon.

The speculation on just who will win the Wimbledon Men’s Singles is at a fever pitch with commentators, odds brokers, sports editors, and fans all hyping the strengths of their favorite player. Among many sports magazine editors, especially Sports Illustrated, there is a division of opinion. While the majority feel Roger Federer, despite his poorer recent showings, is the favorite to win, there is an increasing move among some of them to judge that Andy Murray may in fact roll over the obvious favorite picks to smash all the former Wimbledon winners he opposes. It is felt that the only true competition he faces will be against the still strong Rafael Nadal.

With the English having failed to take Wimbledon since Fred Perry won in 1936, there is great pressure on Andy to bring the coveted win back to the British camp. There is the fact that Murray is not a fan of grass as a playing surface. He has stated that this is not his favorite Grand Slam either. Still the public hopes that he is fired up enough to overcome these personal biases to achieve the upset this year and show that he is a winner despite adversity.

Of his five Wimbledon appearances, Murray has only advanced past the early rounds and into the final tournament once. Roger Federer has defeated Murray once already this year at the Australian Open. It is hoped that Wimbledon is where the rising star of Andy Murray will eclipse the favored Federer as the Tournament commences.

The prestigious Wimbledon Tennis Tournament, just as the Racing Grand National, is such a hugely popular social event that it brings out people who seldom ever place wagers on sporting events and has them lining up to back their favorites. This extreme betting behavior gathers steam as the media hype the event the closer it draws to beginning. The off court jockeying for position with online gamblers for the extra bids is every bit as fierce as the competition among the players during the matches. It is to draw in their share of the wagering public that online betting houses routinely offer various “Free Bets” to new clients.

The concept of the free bet as a form of incentive has grown exponentially with the online venues for wagering. Basically, when a person first signs up with and deposits funds for a paid wager, the dite will issue that new player a chance to place a bet of a certain amount on any sporting event they choose. The specific amount does vary between competing online wagering sites and even from week to week the amunts and incidence of offered “free bets” changes. To maximize your betting potential with the least expenditure of your own cash, investigation and study of the offered odds and amounts is necessary.

By signing up with and placing a few wagers through several online betting houses, you can position yourself to acquire many profitable payoffs without it costing anything. The free bet can be used to play against the paid wager so that a return is always assured.

Currently Betfair seems to be offering the best free bet incentive with a twenty-five pound bid amount to help make your Wimbledon experience a success. Ladbrokers, William Hill, and Victor Chandler are also in contention with good free bet deals. By waiting until closer to the beginning of the tournament, you may find the amounts and odds even better than the current market listings.

The 2009 Wimbledon Tennis Championship Tournament fulfilled the level of excitement that was expected of such a prestigious event. As well as setting various new records for Wimbledon, the winners also set personal and professional records to make the event extra exciting.

The star of the Tournament was easily the Swissman, Roger Federer. The Wimbledon Men’s Singles win marked his third title win in 2009 and his sixtieth career win. He managed to surpass and break the fourteen Grand Slam wins of Pete Sampras and end the tournament with fifteen Grand Slam wins. Federer is still one shy of matching Sampras’ seven Wimbledon titles. The 2009 Wimbledon Tournament also brought Federer into a tie with Bjorn Borg for winning Wimbledon five times in a row.

The Ladies Championship matches brought its own level of excitement. The American Serena Williams dominated the Ladies play throughout the tournament. Not only was it her third Wimbledon title, she also shared the Ladies Doubles win with her sister and fellow American Venus Williams whom she had defeated for the Singles Championship. The win also marked Williams’ eleventh career Grand Slam victory.

Despite the weather beginning in a stretch of dry, hot weather, rain moved in on the seventh day of the games and afforded the opportunity for the first use of the newly constructed retractable roof that had been constructed over the Centre Court. While it did delay the next match between Amelie Mauresmo and Dinara Safina, it did provide yet another new record for Wimbledon. The following match between Andy Murray and Stanislas Wawrinka marked not only the first full match played under the roof, but with the use of floodlights, became the latest game finish ever, not being concluded until after 10:30 at night.