The game of mixed pairs in tennis is not very popular even among pure tennis bettors. Bookmakers also take this into account, which is why the odds for sparring mixed pairs are not set by analysts of the highest class. Such a careless attitude of the bookmaker to the mix leads to frequent strong distortions, errors in the line odds, which is used by a small number of experienced users, carefully looking for these errors and making successful bets on high numbers.
Content
- How to analyze matches?
- Participation of tennis players in doubles
- Athletes' current level of play
- Favorite court coverage
- Performances in other categories of the current tournament
- Experience of playing with a mixed partner
- Mixed betting strategy
- Summing up
How to analyze matches?
It is extremely difficult to analyze mixed pairs in tennis. Couples often split up by taking part in one or more tournaments. After that, tennis players for a long time do not participate in competitions of this nature, more acting individually or in single-sex doubles. After a long time, athletes can again take part in mixed doubles, but with other partners. All this complicates the analysis of tournaments of a designated nature. And the analysts of the offices more often set odds based on the current rating of the mixed participants.
For this reason, before placing a bet, the bettor must study several important issues.
Participation of tennis players in doubles
There is a whole gulf between individual and doubles. A top tennis player who performs powerfully in the individual category can be among the outsiders in the doubles. The athlete's current rating plays an important role, but two points come to the fore:
- an experience;
- coherence of the game with a partner.
In mixed doubles, there is not much sense in talking about coherence, here the experience of playing in pairs comes first.
A separate note is devoted to betting on doubles in tennis on our website with a detailed description of the features of its analysis
If a tennis player often takes an active part in rating tournaments in addition to the individual category also in doubles, then such an athlete can powerfully play in mixed doubles if he selects for himself a worthy partner of the opposite sex.
In the final of the doubles category of the US Open, “Barty / Azarenka – Mertes / Sobolenko” met. These are two highly rated pairs, often reaching the final stages in competitions of this nature. Such athletes will make a good match for men in mixed doubles.
Athletes' current level of play
You can be the most experienced player in doubles competitions, but if one of the representatives of the duo has a severe game crisis, this significantly lowers the overall level of play of both participants.
Favorite court coverage
This often happens in tennis, when each athlete in a couple has their own “favorite” court. If two athletes have a favorite surface, for example, clay, and the mixed is held in the framework of the French Open, then such a duet of tennis players, with other high indicators, has a high chance of success.
Find out more about the coverage factor and its effect on match results here.
Performances in other categories of the current tournament
Tennis players within the framework of one tournament can take part in different categories: individual, doubles or mixed. If an athlete gives all his best in the individual category, spending too much energy there, then he will not be able to play normally in the mixed doubles. If such a player is still the leader of the duo, then he will most likely lose to a strong opponent.
Experience of playing with a mixed partner
Despite the high turnover in this type of competition, there are enough constant pairs. They are the favorites of the tournaments, taking part there. After all, do not forget that coherence plays a huge role in the level of the duet's performance.
Mixed betting strategy
Mixed duo competitions are necessarily held within the framework of the Olympic Games, as well as in all four Grand Slam tournaments. 3-4 additional tournaments can be held during the season. It will be interesting to see who made their way to the semi-finals and finals of the top competitions during the 2019 season.
These are the semifinal and final rounds of the Australian and French Opens.
Shown here are the semi-finals and finals of Wimbledon and the US Open.
Of all 16 semi-final duos, only the pair “Melichar N. / Soares B.” managed to make it to the 1/2 finals in Australia and France, which indicates the absence of constant favorites, as well as in pure doubles.
It is worth paying attention to who won the Australian Open – “B. Kreichikova / R. Ram”. And now it's worth taking a look at one of the semi-final sparring matches of the US Open – “Stosur S. / Ram R.” American tennis player Rajiv Ram in both tournaments took part with different partners and reached the high stages with them.
But before the United States, Ram played in the mixed double at Wimbledon and was eliminated there in the first round, in the 1/32 finals. But in England the American already had a different partner and he was eliminated outright, even though BK 1xBet to win Rama and his partner set a coefficient of 1.51, which was a little overloaded by bettors. As a result, the loaded favorite lost. It is precisely this case that clearly shows how to successfully place bets in all this “mess”.
The Bettors reacted to the loud name of the American, who periodically gets to the high stages of the mixed, but he did it with other partners. In the lost match under consideration, Rajiv played with an American athlete – Alison Risk, who is a mediocre tennis player in the framework of doubles, which affected the game in tandem with Rajiv.
But when Ram played with Stosur and Kreichikova, who are in the TOP-15 doubles players, he achieved high results with these strong partners.
All this information was not taken into account by the analysts of bookmakers and set a low coefficient for a pair where a male tennis player had a weak partner, a woman; many users also did not conduct a thorough analysis and downloaded overvalued favorites. As a result, those who bet on the outsiders won. Two main factors are missing at once:
- high cohesion;
- not the highest level of play in an American pair.
Competently analyzing the sparring of mixed tournaments is difficult even for the analysts of the bookmakers, who periodically expose coefficients for individual matches that do not reflect the real alignment of forces, as happened in the above-discussed match. Such distortions should be looked for in the line and bet against unjustified favorites or underestimated favorites, we will carefully consider the last case.
In this match, the favorites should have had a lower coefficient. If we go back to the beginning of this material, we can recall how during 2019 in four Grand Slam tournaments the pair “Melichar N. / Soares B.” made their way twice to the semifinals. This is a really played duo, demonstrating a high level of playing for a long time. And here the bookmakers put only 1.55-1.6 on them. You could safely bet on their clear victory or a small negative head start in games at a good odds. Here bookmaker analysts made another mistake, underestimating a strong pair.
Summing up
Having analyzed how to correctly analyze mixed pairs sparring, having considered two popular mistakes of bookmaker analysts: overestimating an apparent favorite, where only one strong player plays, and underestimating a strong and well-played pair, you can now successfully and promisingly bet on mixed tennis.
