When a player retires from a tennis match, should you lose your bet or should the bet be void? In the world of gambling, it depends who you have placed your wager with. Different bookmakers have differing rules to deal with these circumstances. Ladbrokes, Coral and Blue Square all state that if a [...]
FLUSHING MEADOWS, NEW YORK - Caroline Wozniacki is the no 1 seed for the women’s title at the US Open and she becomes the first female tennis player to have ever been awarded the top seeding without having won a Grand Slam title. Her no 1 ranking has obviously been easier to attain following the [...]
FLUSHING MEADOWS, NEW YORK - The seeding for the US Open tennis has been announced and unsurprisingly the top four seeds are in order Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray. Nadal is the top seed despite the fact that he has never made it to the final of the US Open. It [...]
Richard Bloomfield, ranked 552 in the world at the start of last week, has found himself at the centre of a probe concerning the betting patterns behind his recent match against Christophe Rochus at the Hall of Fame Championships in Newport.
AFTER tournament-favourite Sam Querrey was knocked out of the ATP Hall of Fame Tennis Championships yesterday, bookmakers took action to make Mardy Fish the new favourite to prevail in Newport. Querrey's defeat to Jamaica's Dustin Brown means that the top seed still has not won the ATP tournament in its 34 year existence.
The eagerly anticipated Wimbledon semi-final between British No. 1 Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal will begin shortly after the Berdyck v Djokovic match is done on Centre Court this afternoon. Unsurprisingly the SW19 crunch match is getting even more press in the UK than the soccer World Cup and analysts predict that industry turnover on the Murray match could be somewhere near the £10 million mark.
Read: Wimbledon Odds: Andy Murray v Rafael Nadal Betting Update
Andy Murray finally dropped a set yesterday against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, but he still delighted his legion of fans by advancing to the semi-finals of Wimbledon in four sets. The match could have swung either way, but Murray's backers will take it as a good omen that the Scotsman made it through on the same day that reigning champion Roger Federer crashed out of the tournament.
Read: Wimbledon 2010: Andy Murray v Rafael Nadal Betting Odds
Serena Williams looks to be cruising her way to another Wimbledon final, but this afternoon Petra Kvitová will be hoping to cause problems for the No. 1 seed. Bookmakers had Serena as their hot favourite to win the tournament ever since she won her third ladies' singles title at SW19 last year, and now her task appears much easier given that her sister Venus did not make it to the semi-final stages of the competition.
Read: Wimbledon 2010: Serena Williams v Petra Kvitová Betting Odds
Roger Federer has been sensationally knocked out of Wimbledon in the quarter-finals by an inspired Tomáš Berdych in four sets: 4-6, 6-3, 1-6, 4-6. The Czech player, currently 13th in the ATP rankings, played some brilliant tennis to set up a semi-final against Novak Djokovic.
Read: Wimbledon 2010: Roger Federer v Tomáš Berdych Betting Result
The British bookmakers believe that Andy Murray has a golden opportunity to advance to the semi-finals of Wimbledon at the expense of Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Andy Murray has yet to drop a set at this year's championships, and his good spell of grass court form means that the best price about him winning the tournament is just 5/1 with Boylesports.
Read: Wimbledon 2010: Andy Murray v Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Betting odds
