The Australian Open kicks off a four-tournament Grand Slam series just after the New Years. Rested tennis bettors start their next season with renewed vigor in their preferred sport, where all the experience of playing sports betting and a small amount of luck will be needed right off the bat.
It should be noted right away that betting on the January Grand Slam tournament is the most difficult in comparison with others, but it also presents a number of unique opportunities. What all this is connected with, how and what to use in practice, we have to carefully consider in the framework of this review.
Content
- The main feature of the tournament
- How to analyze matches?
- Popular strategies
- Bets on loaded tennis players at the beginning of the tournament
- The home tournament factor
- Glasses protection
- Experienced betting tips
- Summing up
The main feature of the tournament
The main feature is one thing – this championship starts almost immediately after the off-season, when tennis players are just starting to get in shape, and many of last year's leaders are not in maximum condition. All this greatly complicates the conduct of a qualitative analysis, which sometimes leads to serious mistakes on the part of the bookmaker's analysts, who allow strong distortions in the matches.
We can safely say that the top tournament held in Australia is often an era of distortions: blunders of bookmaker analysts. This allows you to bet on a promising line with a high odds. But much depends on the quality analytical work done by the bettor.
How to analyze matches?
The user needs to learn one main rule – to completely forget the successes of each tennis player in the last season. A new tennis year begins, where one athlete can greatly improve, the second, on the contrary, can sharply surrender. There are only a few important points to remember:
- Player's favorite coverage;
- Tournaments won by him, the points of which are to be defended;
- Tactical characteristics.
Keeping all this in mind, it remains to find out the current playing form of the athlete, which will make it possible to analyze several previously held less rated tournaments.
A good example can be seen from the Czech top tennis player, Petr Kvitov.
It is immediately evident how the Czech woman faced great difficulties in her first tournament of the new season that started in 2019, held in Brisbane. This performance was more of a training nature. But already in Sydney, Kvitova performed powerfully and won the local competition, beating several strong rivals. Such a performance said that the Czech woman quickly gained good shape and was obliged to perform powerfully at the first Grand Slam tournament, which happened in reality.
Kvitova reached the final, winning all stages with a score of 2: 0.
Almost all tennis players have time to perform at two tournaments taking place in Australia itself, in front of the Grand Slam. This allows you to calmly acclimate and have a number of sparring sessions on hard. These performances, as in the case of the Czech tennis player, should be carefully considered by studying:
- physical fitness: even a short break greatly reduces the endurance of an athlete, he simply does not have enough strength for a decent fight after an hour of play;
- characteristics of the serve: the percentage of hitting the first serve, how many points are won on the second serve;
- the tactics of the struggle, at which point the player adds a lot: at the beginning of the meeting or gradually.
Having performed poorly in previous less-rated competitions, a tennis player rarely performs powerfully in the main Australian championship.
Having studied the performance of the participants in the selected opposition, you should proceed to the rates themselves.
You can find out about bets on another Grand Slam tournament – Wimbledon here
Popular strategies
There are enough theories, many of them are used in all Grand Slam tournaments. It is worth highlighting and studying a few that are most suitable for Australia.
Bets on loaded tennis players at the beginning of the tournament
In almost any tennis championship, one should take special care of the loaded outsiders or one of the equal opponents in the duel. But in the Australian championship, this must be done. It has already been mentioned above that there are strong distortions in the lines due to underestimation of the players' game form. Sometimes experienced bettors, after a well-conducted analytical work, begin to actively bet on one of these underestimated tennis players, which leads to a decrease in the coefficient on his victoria.
All this applies to the qualifying matches and the 1/64 finals of the main draw. By the 1/32 finals and especially 1/16 the level of play of the athletes remaining in the tournament becomes extremely clear.
At the victoria of the participants of the presented meeting, BC 1xStavka put up almost equal odds, where a good load was observed on Alena Bolshova, who eventually won this confrontation.
Having seen such loads, it will not be superfluous to study the upcoming match and understand on the basis of what it arose.
It is worth skipping matches where heavy load goes to the super obvious option
The home tournament factor
Many young bettors believe that since the championship is held in Australia, local players will perform powerfully in their homeland. The motivation factor plays an important role in sports betting, but this factor is especially important when there are two roughly equal opponents. When rivals of different levels meet within the framework of the Grand Slam, the motivation of the home court does not always help to win, because each participant has emotions boiling well to perform well at such an important championship.
This fight is just perfect, several factors converged here at once:
- the bookmaker made a mistake in setting the odds and made the Australian tennis player an outsider of the meeting, when approximately equal opponents actually met;
- there is a load on the outsider;
- the outsider of the fight is Australian, his motivation to win is off the charts.
The home factor of a tournament should only be used in a fight between two equal opponents.
Glasses protection
In each season, a tennis player must defend the points gained last season. It is worth imagining with what motivation the athletes who managed to reach the 1/8 finals and higher approach the top championship to fight, thereby gaining a lot of points. If they are not protected, they will be removed from the rating. For this reason, the glasses defending tennis players are trying to approach the main tournament in Australia in strong playing condition.
These are the quarterfinalists of the 2018 season, who put a large number of points in their rating. They had a strong interest in protecting them in 2019. Experienced bettors carefully monitor the form in which these athletes are suitable for the next top championship.
Of all the quarterfinalists in 2018, only Suarez Navarro failed badly the following year, leaving the stage 1/32. Mertens and Wozniacki reached 1/16. All other tennis players reached the 1/8 finals and higher.
After making sure that the athletes, who are forced to defend their glasses, have gained excellent shape, you should definitely place bets on them, choosing several options:
- exact score 2: 0;
- negative handicap in games when meeting with a frankly weak opponent;
- zero form or victory in case of a strong underestimation by the bookmaker of such a player.
Experienced betting tips
When choosing bets on the Australian Open, there are several important points to keep in mind:
- It is always worth studying the history of head-to-head meetings: it often happens that rivals met a few days ago in a less-rated tournament, the motivation to win will go off scale for the previously loser – this factor is especially important when two equal tennis players meet;
- The championship is held on hard, where the advantage is enjoyed by a versatile player who knows how to punch strongly from both hands, has a powerful and accurate first serve, and is in good physical shape;
- It is worth looking at when and with whom the athletes fought in the previous round: one player could win an easy victory, spending a little time on it, the second fought hard at the limit of his strength for several hours and finished the fight less than a day ago – in such a situation it is worth playing better against a tired tennis player.
It will not be superfluous to watch news feeds that reveal the situation around the tournament itself, as well as the social networks of strong tennis players, doing this with one goal: any negative moment around a tennis player strongly affects his playing form.
Summing up
The Australian Open requires high training, experience in tennis betting and the ability to conduct high-quality analytical work without fear of spending a lot of time on it.
