US Open Tennis Betting Guide
The US Open Tennis Championships has seen Serena take the Womens title and Roger Federer beat Andy Murray in straight sets and continues his great form in the US Open.
We all look forward to the 2009 US Open next year at Flushing, New York. It is the final Major Tennis Championship of the year and very often the most exciting.
The Tournament started 126 years ago, but its format has changed unrecognisably these days. The US Open history is fascinating, a Tournament that started as an all male affair, to a mixed Tournament, competed for by virtually every top ranked player in the World. It is testament to those who founded the competition and we are certain that they would be delighted to learn that this year over 650.000 spectators will watch live tennis at the Billie Jean King Centre in Flushing and over a billion people will watch worldwide.
US Open Tennis Mens Singles Championship
The top men’s seeds this year will be led by the brilliant Spaniard, Rafael Nadal, he will be hoping to clinch his third Grand Slam Title in a row. Roger Federer who has won here for the last four years is the number two seed and his aim will be to emulate recent Champions such as Jimmy Connors, who has won the Tournament five times and has been in a further two finals. Ivan Lendl won the Championship three times in a row between 1985/6/7, but few people know that he was runner-up in 1982/3/4/8/9, an incredible run of eight consecutive finals. Check out our US Open Roll of Honour.
It seems that Federer will find it much tougher this year, he has been defeated more often more than usual and lost his Australian Open crown, to rising superstar, Novak Djokovic in January. He was then beaten in humiliating style by Nadal in the French Open Final and then lost his Wimbledon crown, again to Nadal in an epic confrontation, that many have called the greatest Wimbledon Final ever. Nadal and Djokovic will undoubtedly be a big threat this year. These three are the top seeds this year. US Open men’s seedings.
US Open Tennis Womens Championship
The US Open Women’s top seeds are led by new world number one, Ana Ivanovic, due to the unexpected retirement of current Champion, Justine Henin. Ana, who won her first Grand Slam in June, when taking the French Open title, will be looking to go one better at this tournament from last year where she was runner up. Serena Williams, who would love to win her home final again, is seeded at number four. After several injury setbacks over the last couple of years, Serena is almost back to her best and will be a major influence this year. She was a winner here in both 1999 and 2002. She defeated sister, Venus Williams in the 2002 final, which reversed the places from the year before, where Venus got the upper hand. Venus also won the title in 2000 and she is hitting the ball as hard as ever this year. Serena was of course also beaten in the Wimbledon Final last month, once again to sister Venus.
Tennis has become a big betting sport and the US Open betting offers many excellent free bets, plus our own US Open Tips. Check the odds out of the leading players, that is updates on a round by round basis, on our US Open Odds page. Although there will be plenty of excitement on the courts, excitement could be generated off the courts too, with some carefully placed US Open free bets.
