August 2007

Your basic guide to in-play tennis betting on Betfair

Tareq Quiroz / 31 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Tennis betting expert TQ guides you through the golden rules of in-play tennis betting...Read more »

A spell of brilliance from Blake knocks out "The Magician"

Sean Calvert / 31 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Tennis guru Sean Calvert tells us all about Day Four at the US Open...Read more »

Henman's up for Betfair Turbo Tennis - a 30 minute showdown with rackets.

Editor / 31 August 2007 / Leave a comment

The end might be in sight for Henman but Tiger Tim is expecting to go out with a bit of a roar at the O2 Arena on the 15th September. He'll be up against the young guns of Andy and...Read more »

Melzer leads the charge with Austrian tennis on the up

/ 31 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Perfecseun looks at Austria's emerging players and considers how far they can go in New York...Read more »

Dementieva can be seriously tested earlier than she thought

Tareq Quiroz / 31 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Perfecseun with his pick of today's action from Flushing Meadows...Read more »

Kiefer and Koubek back in good touch

/ 30 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Perfecseun picks out two players that are on the up and could hang around at the US Open...Read more »

H. T. Lee can KO G. Canas

Sean Calvert / 30 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Perfecseun picks the best bets from today's action at the US Open...Read more »

Tiger roars into round two

Sean Calvert / 30 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Betfair's tennis guru Sean Calvert talks us through the action on day three at the US Open...Read more »

Maria, Venus, Serena, Ana and Jelena - Who has the weapons to go furthest at Flushing Meadows?

Editor / 30 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Betfair's Mandeep leaves Henin out of the picture and looks at who amongst the other favourites can go all the way in New York...Read more »

Fools rush in where backers fear to tread ...

Matthew Walton / 30 August 2007 / Leave a comment

"Magical" Matthew Walton considers why short-priced favourites sometimes don't become underdogs on Betfair till the bitter end...Read more »

Sharapova's "evening dress" the highlight of a dire day two in New York

Sean Calvert / 29 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Betfair tennis guru Sean Calvert stays up till the wee hours... but wishes he hadn't bothered...Read more »

Bottle-throwing, umpire-abusing and a Kiefer sulk...just another day at the US Open

Sean Calvert / 28 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Betfair tennis guru Sean Calvert on events on day one at the US Open...Read more »

Which four players will be there at the business end of the US Open?

Editor / 28 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Sky Sports' Barry Millns looks at the players he expects to win their respective quarters in the men's draw...Read more »

Djokovic and Kuznetsova the value bets for US Open

Sean Calvert / 23 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Tennis guru Sean Calvert talks us through the best bets out there now the draw is out...Read more »

Allez Justine!

Editor / 23 August 2007 / Leave a comment

The world number one is put under the microscope by Betfair's tennis expert Mandeep...Read more »

The Mysterious World of Seeding Committees

Matthew Walton / 23 August 2007 / Leave a comment

"Magical" Matthew Walton on how seedings are determined and how much us punters should read into them...Read more »

Potito Starace is the Perfecseun selection

/ 22 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Perfecseun with his selection from today's matches...Read more »

Keep an eye on Mathieu and Ferrer this week

/ 21 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Perfecseun sheds some light on...value bets at the Pilot Pen Tournament...Read more »

Big server John Isner will be the one boom-booming Benjamin Becker

/ 21 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Perfecseun with his top selection from today's matches...Read more »

Why the A-Rod may never retrieve his A-game

Barry Millns / 21 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Sky Sports' Barry Millns looks at where it's all gone wrong for Andy Roddick and which players you want to be on when facing him...Read more »

Tough call but Koubek may have Lapentti's number

/ 20 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Perfecseun with his pick of today's matches...Read more »

Gamesmanship - the different forms and the worst offenders

Scott Ferguson / 19 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Scott's Spot- Scott looks at how gamesmanship has crept into the game and why it happens...Read more »

Bouncebackability - fact or fiction?

Barry Millns / 16 August 2007 / Leave a comment

"Magical" Matthew Walton takes a look at which players come back from the dead when going a set down and which lie down and die...Read more »

No walk in the park for Hewitt against Melzer

/ 16 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Perfecseun looks at the best bet from today's Western and Southern Masters...Read more »

Clement looks a good price to turn over moody Berdych

/ 15 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Tennis guru Sean Calvert looks at the best tennis bets out there...Read more »

Stepanek and Melzer can make you money in the next few weeks

/ 15 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Perfecseun sheds some light on two players who have overcome injury and loss of form in recent times to be back to their best...Read more »

P. Kohlschreiber can slay the giant Del Potro

/ 15 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Perfecseun assesses another match from the Western and Southern Masters...Read more »

Andy Murray - Great Britain hope or too much hype?

Barry Millns / 14 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Sky Sports' Barry Millns assesses Andy Murray's career so far...Read more »

The Russian Brigade - The Fab Four under the spotlight

Editor / 14 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Mandeep takes an in-depth look at the world of tennis...Read more »

Fighters, Flakes and Ones For The Future

Matthew Walton / 14 August 2007 / Leave a comment

"Magical" Matt Walton takes a look at the triers, quitters and hot prospects of the mens' game...Read more »

The predictibility of a Henman match and a profitable win courtesy of Melzer

Sean Calvert / 14 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Sean Calvert takes us through yesterday's tennis betting...Read more »

Safin should just edge ahead versus Kiefer in the battle of the walking wounded

/ 13 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Perfecseun takes a look at today's glamour tie...Read more »

Sean Calvert on Federer's demise

Sean Calvert / 13 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Roger's Masters? Not this year! Montreal wrap and Cincinnati advice...Read more »

Federer tops US Open betting for four timer

Editor / 10 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Having secured his fifth consecutive Wimbledon title Roger Federer is a hot favourite in the betting to make it four in a row at the US Open at Flushing Meadows. The 25-year-old justified his short odds to beat Andy Roddick...Read more »

ATP Masters Series Betting

Editor / 10 August 2007 / Leave a comment

There is a total of almost $2.5million in prize money up for grabs at the event which will be competed for by the world's top 45 men at the Uniprix Stadium in Montreal this year....Read more »

Scott's Spot - Burnout in the modern game

Editor / 10 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Hingis, Schuettler, Clijsters and others have destroyed their bodies due to the demands of the modern game...Read more »

Perfecseun's daily blog

/ 10 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Djokovic and Roddick evenly matched up in today's clash in Rogers Cup...Read more »

Perfecseun sheds some light on...Radek Stepanek

/ 10 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Czech serve-volleyer is back in business...Read more »

Tennis Betting Guru Sean Calvert's daily entry

Sean Calvert / 10 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Disappointing Djokovic starts the rot...Read more »

"Say It Ain't So" - the Shadow over Tennis

Barry Millns / 09 August 2007 / Leave a comment

After Betfair voids a whole market because of irregular betting patterns, Barry Millns asks whether Tennis needs to toughen up to protect punters......Read more »

BCR Open betting

Editor / 04 August 2007 / Leave a comment

The BCR Open Romania, starting on September 10, should provide tennis fans and punters with plenty of betting opportunities. Those with bets on Austria's Jurgen Melzer in last year's clay-court event in Bucharest collected at attractive odds when he beat...Read more »

Betting.betfair.com is getting bigger and, yes, better.

Editor / 01 August 2007 / Leave a comment

Following a short break we are re-launching the site with more contributors, better information and extra punting morsels to mull over. Due to the break some news stories in the archive are a tickle out of date but this will...Read more »