Tennis Betting Advice - January 2022
Monday 3rd January 2022
Happy New Year…
Here we are again at the start of a brand-new tennis season.
Our focus is fully on Australia, with a total of nine ATP & WTA tournaments taking place this month. Before the Australian Open starts at Melbourne Park on 17th January.
Five of those warm-up events take place this week, with events in Adelaide and Melbourne.
The action got underway in Adelaide last night. I recorded my first late night of 2022, staying up watching the first women’s match of the season. Maria Sakkari beat Tamara Zidansek in three sets. Watch out for Sakkari making another big attempt at winning a maiden Grand Slam title this year.
Tonight, play begins in Melbourne, with the ‘Summer Set’ competitions, of which there are two on the women’s tour. The one I like for our first bets of the new season is the WTA Melbourne Summer Set 2 event…
The bottom half of the draw is all set for a shootout between the experienced Elise Mertens, and our Ones to Watch youngster, Clara Tauson. In the Outright Winner betting, Mertens is 9/2 (5.5), and Tauson is 6/1 (7.0). We’ve got the Danish teenager in the book as an early-bird 100/1 pick for the Australian Open. That’s more like our kind of price.
In the top half of the Melbourne Summer Set 2 draw, two 33/1 outsiders catch my eye. Jasmine Paolini and Sorana Cirstea. Both had good seasons last year, with the younger of the two, Italian 25-year-old Paolini, winning the first two WTA singles titles of her career. And Romanian 31-year-old Cirstea lifting her first trophy since 2008.
Both have the ability to play at a higher level than their prices suggest here. And this 250-grade tournament is exactly the kind of low-key event where we should look to back players of this ilk. Sitting as they both do outside of the world’s top 30, but with the capability to take the game to higher-ranked players, on their day.
Along with those two as 33/1 Each Way outsider picks in the Outright Winner market. Paolini and Cirstea also go down as my first Match Winner selections of 2022, to win their respective matches tonight/ in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Along with the hot young talent Tauson for her opening match, the treble comes in at 14/5 (3.8).
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WTA Melbourne – Summer Set 2
Outright Winner – Each Way:
Each Way terms: 1/2 odds 1-2 places.
Match Winner:
JASMINE PAOLINI to beat Anna-Karolina Schmiedlova
SORANA CIRSTEA to beat Varvara Gracheva
CLARA TAUSON to beat Anhelina Kalinina
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Play starts from Midnight, UK time. Bookies take down their Outright Winner markets during play.
I’ll be back in the week with more, as we get our teeth into the new season.
It’s good to be back. Enjoy the tennis…
Best wishes,
Tom Wilson