ATP World Tour Finals Tennis Betting
Tennis betting means a whole lot more than just the Australian Open, US Open tennis, French Open and the Wimbledon Championships; yet for a large part these are the tournaments that capture the tennis betting public's imagination first and foremost, courtesy of their star billing with the online bookmakers who create and implement their own unique internet sportsbooks to cover these prime-time tennis betting events. Away from the bright lights and fulsome glare of the four Tennis Betting tournaments that comprise the Grand Slam, there's a host of virtual tennis betting opportunities up for grabs from one year's end to another. And speaking of which (year ends that is, and not tennis ladies' rear ends – of the distinctly Eastern European variety - that attract more and more attention at Wimbledon each year), and ATP World Tour Finals tennis betting is where a lot of the racquet-punting action is latterly each year.
Roger Federer crowned ATP World Tour Champion 2009
Internet Tennis Betting Community Quick On ATP World Tour Finals Uptake
Growing numbers of tennis betting fans revel in the gambling opportunities thrown up by the exciting prospect of (statistically) the globe's bets men tennis players going for each other's jugulars in the name of outright ATP superiority. Indeed, long before the final eight players are determined (some of the invitees book their places as soon as the previous summer dependant on their accumulative ATP tour victory/points awarded overall standing) the ATP World Tour Finals tennis betting markets are buzzing and crackling with odds and prices being compiled by the web's leading sports bookmakers, keen to offer their online members the full ATP World Tour Finals tennis betting service. What's more, for those internet betting newcomers, the ATP World Tour Finals provides the ideal virtual betting setting to take advantage of the interactive bookies' free bets entitlements, which are omnipresent on the homepage of most of their sites. Betfair (£25 free bet), Paddy Power (£20 free bet), SkyBet (£10 free bet) and 888sport (£50 free bet) being good examples of tennis betting free bet-friendly online bookies.
End Of Year ATP World Tour Finals Tennis Betting Showdown Popular With Online Sports Betting Fans
So what's ATP World Tour Finals tennis betting all about then we hear you enquire? Well, you've now got the idea what it's about from a tennis betting angle, yet from a playing perspective, it's all about the following. If you're good at tennis, then there's a realistic chance you're going to win a few professional tournaments during the course of the year. If you achieve this feat – then aside from trousering a useful amount of money, soaring up the ATP mens tennis world rankings, securing sponsorship deals into they come out of your nose, getting on first name terms with your bank manager and possibly hooking up with tennis groupies of the opposing gender – then it's pretty much a given that you'll be involved in the end of year ATP World Tour Finals. Hosted at perpetually shifting (yet always rather jet-set and glamourous trans-global locations) cities far and wide at the end of November each year, eight of the then best mens tennis players on the planet (according to ATP Tour statistics amassed and calculated during the course of the year's ATP-regulated tennis tournaments) go head-to-head with one another for the ATP World Tour Finals honours.
Masterminded the then global tennis powers-that-be back in 1970, the ATP World Tour Finals operated under the heading of The Masters Grand Prix; and was organised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), on the exact same premise and rudimentary principles as what we observe today. However in 1990, the Association of Tennis Professionals (yup, otherwise known by the snappy acronym of the ATP) took over the reigns of the whole tennis road-show and re-branded it as the ATP Tour World Championship; and put into practice the underlying fact that world rankings were going to be the be-all-and-end-all of ascension to the Finals as such. The ITF on the other hand continued to front a similar invite-only tennis tournament operated along very much similar lines called the Grand Slam Cup up until 1999 when the two world tennis governing bodies put their heads together and came up with the power-sharing Tennis Masters Cup. Which remained as was right up until 2009 when PR re-packaging (and a marketing tie-in with Barclays Bank) means that the competition has undergone yet another metamorphosis; now manifesting itself as the ATP World Tour Finals.
Roger Federer Most Likely To Overtake Sampras And Lendl's ATP World Tour Finals Crown
Played under the twin tennis codes of mens singles and doubles (again whereby the ATP-acknowledged best eight doubles teams on the planet face-off to one another care of a round-robin assimilation), in terms of ATP World Tour Finals tennis betting history, two former World No. 1 mens tennis players jointly hold the record of most ATP Finals titles. Both Recent circuit winner, Pete Sampras and 1980s tennis legend, Ivan Lendl possess 5 Finals titles and remain ahead of the chasing pack consisting more contemporary players like Roger Federer (4) and Leyton Hewitt (2).
Back in the day, the revered tennis betting likes of Ilie Nastase, Bjorn Borg, Vitas Gerulaitis and John McEnroe battled it out for ATP World Tour Finals tennis betting honours in front of packed tennis houses in far-flung cities such as Paris, Barcelona, Boston, Melbourne, Stockholm, Houston and New York City itself. Only then of course it was known as The Masters Grand Prix. The great Romanian tennis export, Ilie Nastase collected the winners medal on no fewer than 4 separate occasionshimself, whilst being runner-up once, whilst the popular Swede, Bjorn Borg lifted the trophy twice and bagged the beaten finalist accolade on a further two ooccasions. Not only did Ivan Lendl win the title a record-levelling five times, he was also runner-up four times in his Tour Finals tennis-playing career too. Looking at the number of appearances put in at the Tennis Master Cup, and current World Number 1, the Swiss Roger Federer boasts seven starts as well as brandishing the best match win ratio in the tournament's long and diverse history.