Tennis Betting Tips, Match Previews & Expert Predictions

The nature of tennis means it's one of the most popular sports for punters to gamble on.

There's multiple tournaments every single week of the year, ranging from the four majors (Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon & US Open), to the weekly ATP & WTA events (Masters 1000, 500 & 250) and the lower-tier Challenger Tour, where blood, sweat and tears are spilt as players attempt to break into the top 100.

With so much tennis going on, we strive to make the betting experience as enjoyable and easy as possible - read on below for our complete guide to tennis betting.

Whether you're having a punt on the four Grand Slams, ATP & WTA Tours or the Challenger Tour, our tennis experts will dig deep to find the best value bets on offer.

There's ample opportunity to find value in tennis gambling, with the tours played on different surfaces such as hardcourt, clay, grass and indoors, meaning savvy punters can identify value that the bookies may have missed in particular matchups. Our expert tennis tipsters will assist readers in finding said value all season long on the tour.

In our guide to betting on tennis, we'll show you the different types of markets you can bet on, how to get the most out of your tennis betting experience and the best ways to watch & bet on tennis streams live online.

However, when it comes to promotions, bookmakers usually save them for the big Grand Slam tournaments at the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open.

These promos may come in varying forms, such as multi specials, prop betting such as ace totals and boosted odds for particular matches.

Make sure to keep checking Bets.co.nz as we cover tennis all year round and find the best promos to jump on. 

The most common and easiest type of tennis bet. You simply wager on which player will win the match.

Set betting in tennis allows you to predict the exact outcome of a match in terms of sets. For example, in a best-of-three match between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, you could bet on:

This market is particularly attractive when you believe a favourite will win easily, as you can get increased odds over a regular match winner bet.

Handicap betting levels the playing field by giving a virtual advantage or disadvantage to players. For example, handicap betting (or sometimes referred to as Games Line) can look like this:

If Djokovic were to win the match 7-5 6-4, you would lose this bet if you backed his Games Line as he would have needed to win by 6+ games (this example ends with Djokovic winning 13-9). Conversely, if you backed Medvedev at +5.5 games, your bet would be successful.

This market involves betting on the total number or games or sets in a match. For example, you might be on whether a match will have Over or Under 20.5 total games, or how many sets it will consist of.

Some bookmakers offer the option to bet on the exact score of a player winning a specific set. This is a risky bet as it's difficult to predict the exact winning set score, but if you get it right, the payout is big.

Tennis is well-suited for live betting due to its momentum swings and natural breaks in play. In no other sport can you be so close to defeat, yet still have a decent chance of winning the match. As a result, the odds for live betting can offer great value to savvy punters.

A favourite for punters can involve placing a big multi on the opening rounds of Grand Slams, where there's a high number of matches taking place over the course of a day.

Tennis Multi betting is advantageous as you can combine a bunch of favourites who could be paying between say $1.10 & $1.40 to significantly increase your odds and potential payout.

For example, Jannik Sinner might be paying $1.10 to beat a lower-ranked player in the first round of a Grand Slam. If you find a few other selections around that price range that you are confident will win, then you can increase your odds to around the $2.00 mark - meaning you can now start to double your money if your bet is successful.

Not to worry though! Our expert tennis tipsters carefully scan the day's order of play in multiple tournaments across the world to dig up the best value bets to be backing. We call these our 'Tennis Bet Of The Day' and our experts will provide these to readers daily.

You can find the tennis matches that are live or upcoming in the live stream schedule below.