Wimbledon Tennis Betting 2010
The 2010 Wimbledon Championships will take place from Monday 21 June through to Sunday 4 July at its traditional All England Lawn tennis and Croquet Club venue in SW19. As always this will be tennis’s third Grand Slam event of the year and also the 124th Wimbledon Championships, made even more special by the fact that this year the Queen is expected to attend on Thursday 24 June 2010. One doubts that she will be slumming it on court 16 however.
Roger Federer and Serena Williams will be aiming to defend the titles that they won in 2009, the former bidding to equal Pete Sampras’s record of seven Wimbledon titles.
Mens Wimbledon Tennis Betting 2010
After relinquishing his five year stranglehold on the Mens Wimbledon trophy in 2008 Roger Federer regained the most coveted title in tennis last year, but not without a lot of hard work. An epic final against American Andy Roddick concluded with the Swiss winning the final set 16-14. It was the third time that Federer had beaten Roddick in a Wimbledon final and if on opposite sides of the draw few will be betting against it happening again.
Wimbledon Tennis Betting 2010 has Federer as the unsurprisingly short priced favourite with the 2008 Champion Rafael Nadal as second favourite. Home support ensures that Andy Murray is also a short price in the Wimbledon Tennis Betting 2010, he is third favourite with A-Rod and Novak Djokovic wrestling for fourth favouritism.
Tommy Haas was the surprise package of last year’s tournament making it to the semi-finals after beating Marin Cilic and Djokovic en route. He is once again available at big prices in the Wimbledon Tennis Betting 2010 with Spanish wild-card quarter-finalist Juan Carlos Ferrero also available at big prices.
Womens Wimbledon Tennis Betting 2010
The women’s tournament at Wimbledon has been dominated by the Williams sisters for the last decade, winning eight of the 10 titles between them. Venus holds the upper hand over younger sister Serena with five titles, but Serena is the reigning champion having defeated her elder sibling in straight sets in last year’s final.
Both players have a long way to go if they are to emulate Martina Navratilova’s remarkable feat of nine Wimbledon titles but share favouritism at the head of the Womens Wimbledon tennis Betting 2010.
The betting markets suggest that the Williams sisters should be most concerned about the attentions of Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin despite neither lady competing in last year’s Championship.
It was two American-Russian semi-finals in last year’s championship as the top four seeds all made it to the final four. Elena Dementieva and Dinara Safina were the Russian representatives and although the former remains prominent in the Womens Wimbledon Tennis Betting 2010, the latter is available at big prices after season plagued by injury.
Wimbledon Tennis Betting Markets
A range of Wimbledon Tennis Betting markets are available for punters to divulge in before and after the tournament begins. The increase in popularity of in-play tennis betting means that even if you miss the off you can place bets on almost every market up until the winning shot has been struck.
As well as the outright winners betting markets and individual match betting opportunities there are a range of peripheral betting markets to get involved with. Betting markets such as ‘Will Federer lose a set?’ , ‘Andy Murray’s progress’ and who will win each quarter of the draw are all available to punters and even when the inevitable rain falls you can bet on if and when play will resume.
Although the 2010 FIFA World Cup may take centre stage for many this summer, you can be sure that Wimbledon Tennis Betting 2010 will remain as popular as ever.