Tennis Betting Advice - January 2024
Ones to Watch in Adelaide - at 80/1 and 100/1...
Monday 8th January 2024
As light snowfall begins to descend here in Oxfordshire, on the tennis front we’re headed Down Under for a big few weeks of action…
The Australian Open starts this weekend. More on that in a few days’ time. Your daily service will start from Saturday evening…
The final build-up events are taking place this week, with a total of four ATP & WTA tournaments on the schedule in Australia and New Zealand.
Ones to Watch in Adelaide…
Today we’re concentrating on WTA Adelaide. Play continues in the 1st round from 11.30pm tonight, UK time - and through into the early hours of the morning…
With the week before a Grand Slam long known for being ‘trappy’ - especially for anyone in the minefield business of backing the favourites and star names at short prices. As the top players surely have one eye on staying fit and fresh for Melbourne next week. This is a good week on the tour to take a little look at a couple of rank outsiders in the Outright Winner betting.
For me, two contenders here in the women’s event in Adelaide are last year’s surprise Australian Open semi-finalist, Magda Linette (80/1). And one of 2023’s under-the-radar improved players on the singles tour, Katerina Siniakova (100/1)...
Outright Winner picks - Each Way:
With big Each Way prices to shoot at there, we’ll take the trophy tickets at 80/1 and 100/1. With my advice here being a slight change of tact to our usual level-stakes approach.
We’ll take half a point Each Way on Linette and Siniakova (0.5 pt EW = 1 pt per player).
Match Winner picks:
And with Even Money or better (2.0+) Match Winner prices for their respective 1st-round matches tonight/ Tuesday morning. We’ll have 1 pt on each to win.
Magda Linette to beat Ekaterina Alexandrova - the head-to-head is 2-1 to our Polish pick, with both of 31-year-old Magda’s wins over the talented but flakey 29-year-old Russian coming on hard courts. Including a straight-sets victory in Melbourne during Linette’s big Aussie Open run 12 months ago. This is the world no.24 v no.21; not much in it on paper, but the price and head-to-head puts the edge with Linette.
Katerina Siniakova to beat Karolina Pliskova - the higher-ranked and better known of these two Czechs is clearly Pliskova. But the 31-year-old former world no.1 and Wimbledon finalist has been unreliable for some time now, to put it mildly. Add in injury problems in recent times, too. And the 3-0 head-to-head in favour of the older player needs a big asterisk by it, as Karolina’s last meeting with compatriot Katerina was back in June 2020. Since then, current no.37 Pliskova hasn’t won any WTA singles titles - while Siniakova has racked up three, including two last season. The career momentum is with the 27-year-old world no.49 here.
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Ones to Watch picks:
See above for staking advice
WTA Adelaide – Adelaide International
Outright Winner – Each Way (1/2 odds 1-2 places):
Magda Linette @ 80/1 Skybet, Bet365, William Hill, BetVictor, Ladbrokes, Coral, Boylesports, Unibet
Katerina Siniakova @ 100/1 Bet365, BetVictor, 80/1 Betfred, 66/1 William Hill, 50/1 others
Match Winner:
Magda Linette to beat Ekaterina Alexandrova @ 13/10 (2.3) Bet365, William Hill, BetVictor, 5/4 (2.25) Skybet, Betway
Katerina Siniakova to beat Karolina Pliskova @ 11/10 (2.1) Skybet, Bet365, William Hill, Betway, Evens (2.0) Boylesports
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Play starts from 11.30pm, UK time. Bookies will take down their tournament Outright Winner markets during the matches.
Linette and Siniakova are scheduled to play their matches in the early hours of Tuesday morning, approx. 4am.
You can watch the tournament live on Sky Sports.
Enjoy the tennis…
P.S
Want to get in touch? Email me at: oliver.upstone@oxonpress.co.uk
Best wishes,
Oliver Upstone