re: Ongoing Tennis Gambling Thread

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bobbyray, I've witnessed your love for betting tennis before?

I am interested in betting on tennis as well.

Pointers for beginners?
Is tennis your most profitable sport?

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I'm still better with college football. I've been doing tennis for about a year, and I've won more than I've lost, but I haven't just been crushing it. But I think I'm getting better and the beautiful thing about tennis is that you can keep betting all year rounnd which gives you time to improve with practice and monitor whether you are improving. And tennis is a sport where if you get good enough, then you could literally do it for living. You've got ATP events, ATP qualifying events. ATP doubles, Challengers singles, challengers doubles, and all of the above for the females as well. But I don't recommend betting on the females. That's a sure way to lose money.

A few tips:
1. Be very cautious in betting on French players. They're very good at tennis, but they're also Frenchmen, and so sometimes they decide they'd rather not play hard.

2. Don't get too ambitious in the first round of tournaments. Tennis a grind, and sometimes guys will show up to a tournament in a bad state of mind, or with the actual intent of tanking so they can get a week off. So the first round of tournaments is where you get more instances of inferior players upsetting their higher rankekd colleagues.

3. Play the hot hand. If a player wins his first round match 6-0, 6-2, take him in the next round. He's playing well.

4. Pay attention to the qualifiers. And pay attention to the scores of the qualifying matches. If a guy just rolls through qualies without dropping a set and wins every set in a fairly routine fashion, it might not be a bad idea to back him in the first round of the main draw. He'll be a big underdog, but he's coming in hot, and a lot times those qualifiers steal wins in the first rounds.

5. About half of the sets John Isner plays go to a tiebreaker. Look to play the over in his matches. It hits a lot.

A great site for tennis stats and results is tennisabstract.com It's a great resource.

That's all I can think of for now.