Winning with Tennis Betting Strategy: Expert Tips and Techniques

Follow Favourites in Majors

There are four tennis majors or “Grand Slam” events each year. Those are the Australian Open, the French Open, the Wimbledon Championships and the US Open. Most of the world’s best professional tennis players make a concerted effort to do well in these tournaments by training for them specifically. And that means top seeds have an especially good record in these four events.

Our first tennis betting strategy is, therefore, quite simple. Look at any Grand Slam competition before it gets underway and note the bookmaker’s favourite. Then, make a bet on that player to win the tournament outright. In addition, you can bet on that same player on a match-by-match basis as he or she progresses through the tournament.

With this strategy, if the favourite goes all the way to the final and wins, so will all of your bets. Of course, you can take your match-by-match profits at any time and cease betting. Some bettors do that when their profits from match-by-match betting exceed their stake on the overall win, which means that they won’t lose any money even if the player fails to win the competition.

Try A First-Round Accumulator

In the first-round matches in many major tennis tournaments, top-seeded players often face opponents who are much weaker or less experienced. This makes it as easy as it gets to pick winners, but the odds offered about such ‘nailed on’ seeded players are often so low as to make them unbackable.

This tennis betting strategy aims to capitalise on such matches by combining them into an accumulator bet. Simply look for first-round matches in the Men’s Singles competition where a top-10-seeded player is taking on an opponent who is outside the top 20 – the lower his rank, the better. Put those top-seeded players into an accumulator of no more than 10 legs, and if they all win their first-round matches, the accumulator bet will win.

Thanks to the compounding effect of accumulator bets, this strategy can turn ‘unbackable’ favourites into something more useful. For example, an accumulator bet on 10 players, each at paltry odds of 1.15, would return 4.05. That’s a £40.50 return for a £10 bet. Feel free to use our Accumulator Bet Calculator to work out your potential returns before placing a bet.

Set Betting With Serve

This is a tennis set betting strategy, so you will need to use it at online betting sites that offer set betting markets. Here you look at which player will serve first in a set, and then – if that player is also the favourite to win the match as a whole – you bet on him or her to win the set. Men’s Singles matches can have as many as five sets, in which case you could bet on up to three of them (when a player is first to serve in the first, third and fifth sets). Whether you also make a bet on the favourite to win the match as a whole is up to you.

Seeded Favourite Comebacks

Even top professional tennis players can sometimes take a little time to get into the swing of things. And that can mean that a seeded favourite will occasionally lose the first set of a match. Fortunately – as long as injury or lack of fitness isn’t to blame – experience and tenacity just as often see the same player come back strongly and go on to win the match.

This tennis live betting strategy involves looking out for matches in which a favourite and top-seeded player loses his first set. That will cause the odds available for that player to win the match to drift to a bigger price than they were originally. You can then bet on the player who is one set down to recover and win the match at the larger price that’s now being offered.

Make Use of Free Bets

Our fifth tennis betting strategy is to make good use of free bets. Many betting sites offer these to encourage new customers to sign up (see our Wimbledon Betting Offers page, for example), and they can often be used on any sport you fancy. In that case, you could use them with whatever you consider to be the best tennis betting strategy for you. Some bookies will exclude tennis live betting markets from free bet offers, but others won’t, so don’t be afraid to explore what’s available at different tennis betting sites if you want to use an in-play tennis betting strategy.