Betting on live or pre-match tennis is really exciting. They offer dynamism and unique opportunities at precise moments. This can be really profitable on a good day, but can be frustrating on a downturn.
As an individual sport, tennis usually played in knockout matches, tennis is a sport in which the pressure on the athlete is enormous.
Apart from elite athletes, the vast majority of players see each point as their livelihood. They fight for the prizes and to pay for the trips and make a profit. That’s why, in smaller is tentournaments, there are many surprises, which are caused by veteran players who still pull rabbits out of their hats, newly-professionalised youths who have good game, but a still fragile head, and even weaker athletes. Therefore, it is only worth betting on these games if you know the athletes and their routines.
The bigger the event, the more qualified the players, and that means fewer surprises, even though they’re always there, lurking.
A fact that surprises those who are not very familiar with tennis is that the athlete with the most points does not always win a game. He can lose a set by 6/0 and win two sets by 7/6, losing games by 0 and winning them in the deuce. This is rare, but it happens.
An interesting statistic, to illustrate how much a tennis player has to deal with failure considering every point lost as a failure, of course, Andy Murray, who ended 2016 as the ATP ranking leader, won 90% of his games (78 wins and 9 losses), but won “only” 55% of the points. That means he lost 45% of the points played. Tennis is a very balanced sport, even more so in the elite.
