Tennis Betting Tips: Australian Open Betting Tips & Betting Offers
Will Jackson
Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka are strong favourites to defend their Australian Open titles in Melbourne theis year, and Graham Hardcastle has the latest tennis betting tips ahead of the first major of the year.
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- Australian Open
- Melbourne Park, Melbourne
- Sunday January 12 - Sunday January 26, 2025
Australian Open: Tennis Betting Tips
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The first Grand Slam tournament of the year is upon us.
It’s a tournament which has courted controversy in recent years, rewinding back to Covid when Novak Djokovic was ruled out of the 2022 event having been deported by the Australian Government due to his vaccination status.
But, personally, it’s my favourite event, and having been to a couple of Aussie Opens you can definitely see why it’s nicknamed the Happy Slam.
Who will be very happy in a couple of Sundays, though?
Honestly, it’s so hard to look beyond the two favourites, who are top of the respective lists for good reason.
Including the Six Kings Slam exhibition in Saudi Arabia back in October, Jannik Sinner is on a 17-match winning streak, sweeping all before him during this run - Djokovic, Alcaraz, Medvedev, Ruud, De Minaur.
Italian world number one Sinner is 11/8 with Betfred to defend his title.
Aryna Sabalenka is 5/2 with SportingIndex to defend her women’s crown.
She loves it in Melbourne having triumphed in the last years and has just won the warm-up event in Brisbane, dropping just one set in five matches. The Belarusian came from one set down in the final to beat Polina Kudermetova.
The Sinner-Sabalenka win double is 7.33/1 with Betfred, something I would be having a dabble at.
Jacob to Nick a Round One win
It’s never too early to get patriotic!
Brit Jacob Fearnley has qualified for the main draw at a Grand Slam for the first time and faces a mouthwatering first round clash with Australian Nick Kyrgios, who is dealing with an abdominal injury.
Edinburgh’s Fearnley, now ranked 89 in the world, was handed a wildcard at Wimbledon last summer and reached round two, beaten by Djokovic 3-1.
The 23-year-old has shot up the rankings and is an 6/5 outsider with Betway to beat Kyrgios. I like that a lot.
Fearnley’s rise has been meteoric given he didn’t even have a ranking in late 2023, so he’s clearly on a high. He reached a Challenger event semi-final at Canberra at the start of the month.
Kyrgios, meanwhile, there has to be significant doubts over. He hasn’t played a grand slam match since the 2022 US Open because of injury, so how is he going to return. How fit will he be to get through a potential five set clash?
Taylor made success for American
I have a pair of similarly priced punts for you here.
I like the William Hill’s 7/2 on American Taylor Fritz to reach the men’s semi-finals. That is labelled up as him to win Quarter 2 of the draw.
Fritz was a beaten finalist at last year’s US Open, also reach the quarter-finals at the Aussie Open and Wimbledon in 2024.
He is ranked fourth in the world, one ahead of Daniil Medvedev, who leads the betting to win Quarter 2 of the draw. If both men win through, they would face each other in the quarter-finals. And I do like Fritz, who won four of five warm-up matches at the United Cup over the last fortnight. One of those was courtesy of opponent Tomas Machac retiring, however.
Medvedev, meanwhile, has not played any warm-up events leading into this tournament. Interestingly, Jannik Sinner and Alcaraz have taken the same approach, unlike Djokovic, who played at Brisbane.
I also have a strong feeling for the men’s final to be contested between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, the world’s number one and number three. Alex Zverev splits them in the ranking.
With Rafa Nadal retired, all eyes are on Alcaraz now.
He has been miles ahead of Nadal in terms of quality in recent years, but the legend has still taken a lot of the focus. I think this is a really big year for Alcaraz, who is chasing the career grand slam having won every other major but this one.
A Sinner-Alcaraz final is 15/4 with bet365.
The same firm are also offering 11/2 on two Americans to meet in the women’s quarter-finals. That’s Coco Gauff, who is there and thereabouts at most grand slams now, and Jessica Pegula.
The latter has started the year nicely having recovered from a knee injury suffered at the WTA Finals event in November. At time of writing, she was playing in the semi-finals of the Adelaide warm-up event.
Paul to purr and a Round One acca to get us started
Returning to reaching the semi-finals bets as we come towards the end of this preview, I quite like the look of two American outsiders in the respective events.
US Open women’s finalist (2024) Jessica Pegula has started the year well as aforementioned. And she is 15/2 with betfair to win Quarter 2 and reach the last four.
Above, I suggested that Coco Gauff and Pegula could meet in the quarter-finals. Well, I think Pegula can win that clash.
Tommy Paul is 9/1 with bet365 to win Quarter 4 of the men’s draw.
The world number 12 likes it in Melbourne having reached last year’s semi-final. He has started this year well by going to the semi-finals at Adelaide, so why can’t he go well in the opening grand slam of the year?
Alex Zverev looms as his biggest threat in that quarter, but Paul leads their career head-to-head record 2-0.
Finally, I have a quick-fire five-fold accumulator for the first round.
Betway are offering 11.25/1 on three men’s winners and two women’s.
That’s Alexandre Muller to beat Nuno Borges, Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard to beat fellow Frenchman Gael Monfils, Felix Auger Aliassime to beat Jan-Lennard Struff, Emma Navarro to beat Peyton Stearns and Katie Boulter to beat Rebecca Marino.
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