Hail Rafa! New king of Wimbledon after classic defeat of Federer

Wimbledon Betting / Joe Dyer / 06 July 2008 / 1

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Mallorcan writes his name into the history books with dramatic five set victory

Rafael Nadal made history tonight with an epic defeat of Wimbledon champion Roger Federer in a classic men's final that set records for Betfair too.

Federer was beaten 6-4 6-4 6-7 6-7 9-7 in one of the truly great Centre Court games.

In a see-sawing classic Nadal traded at [1.13] when a break up in the third set and [1.07] in the fourth when holding an advantage in the tie-break. He started the game as the [2.36] underdog with the Swiss world number one the [1.71] favourite. Those odds were nearly replicated at
the opening of the fifth set, with Federer [1.78], Nadal [2.26].

But it was to be the never-say-die Spaniard who emerged victorious.

A full account of the ebbs and flows can be read here

The bald betting facts will show that a record £49,137,328 was traded on the match odds market alone - which is likely to be the largest amount traded on a tennis match in Betfair history.

Nadal was matched at a top price of [12.0] in the Wimbledon winner's market while the Spaniard to win 3-2 was backed at [25.0].

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simmo | 07 July 2008

Fantastic match, well don Rafa, hard luck Roger, it just goes to show, what Betfair have given the stay at home punters, fabulous markets to bet on, events that wouldn't normally be taken seriously by a lot of people ar now generating, almost 50 million pounds on one tennis event.

Well done Betfair, keep it up.