We are having trouble loading this page. Please check your connection. When it comes to tennis betting, Ladbrokes have all corners of the court covered with great sets of smashing offers for major and minor tournaments all over the world. We serve up a wide range of tennis odds on all four grand slams as a matter of course, every ATP and WTA event, plus many of the lesser-known tournaments below the main circuits for both men and women.

Unlike football, there are only two outcomes in tennis betting which partly explains why it is one of the most popular sports on which to bet. There are four grand slams during the season and they always take place at the same time of year. The year starts with the Australian Open at Melbourne Park in January and moves on to the French Open at Roland Garros in Paris in the spring, before the summer brings about strawberries and cream on the lush lawns of Wimbledon.

Flushing Meadows in New York hosts the final major of the year, the US Open which like Australia is played on hard courts. In between, there are nine prestigious Masters series events on the ATP Tour, six of which are played on hard courts and the remainder on clay, and we have tennis odds on all of them.

We have an excellent selection of markets for every match, including the outcome, set betting and many others such as whether there will be a tie-break in the opening set. The highlight of the tennis calendar, certainly in the eyes of the British public, is Wimbledon which is the only grand slam to be played on grass, the quickest surface of all.

ITF M25 Traralgon 2 Men hard 3 ITF M25 Traralgon 2 Men Doubles hard 1 ITF W35 Traralgon 2 Women hard 3 ITF W35 Traralgon 2 Women Doubles hard 1. ATP Santiago clay 2 ATP Santiago Doubles clay 1. ITF M15 Sharm ElSheikh 5 Men hard 1 ITF W15 Sharm ElSheikh 4 Women hard 3 ITF W15 Sharm ElSheikh 4 Women Doubles hard 1.

ITF W35 Helsinki Women hard 2 ITF W35 Helsinki Women Doubles hard 1. ITF M15 Lannion Men hard 1 ITF W50 Macon Women hard 3 Lille Challenger Men hard 3 Lille Challenger Men Doubles hard 1. ITF W35 Gurugram Women hard 2 ITF W35 Gurugram Women Doubles hard 1 New Delhi Challenger Men hard 3 New Delhi Challenger Men Doubles hard 1.

ITF M15 Kish Island 3 Men clay 6 ITF M15 Kish Island 3 Men Doubles clay 3. ITF W15 Ipoh Perak Women hard 3 ITF W15 Ipoh Perak Women Doubles hard 1. It turns out tech companies do not like it when one takes an extended break, because when I started to feel a little progress with my mental health and returned, the algorithm had buried me, which was the second trigger.

I was no longer getting the hits of dopamine I was used to from engagement, talking to friends and colleagues and feeling in touch with the world.

Some smokers quit and take up knitting to keep their hands busy — I replaced scrolling Twitter notifications for checking live match scores. I replaced actual triumphs in life, big or small — being nominated for awards, or writing a piece I was proud of, or just enjoying drinks with friends on a beautiful evening — with the hit of winning.

I f bookmakers were to conceive the perfect sport, it would be tennis. At almost any given moment, there is a tennis match happening. There are multiple tours for men and women. For men, the highest-level tour is the main ATP tour, followed by Challenger and ITF Futures tournaments.

Women compete on the WTA tour, and below that, the and K series and ITF International Tennis Federation events.

But in the end I was even betting on completely obscure college players. There are never-ending markets. You can bet outright on who will win matches, or whole tournaments. But you can also bet on whether Player A will win their first service game.

You can bet on what the score of that first service game will be. You can even bet, during the game, on who will win the next point. Have I bet on who will win the next point? Of course I have. You will never win £ quicker; you will never lose £ quicker.

I went from being someone who enjoyed and played tennis in school, but who, as an adult, barely followed the sport, to becoming obsessed.

I watched every single tournament. I knew that certain tournaments use different balls for men and women. I knew which female players — mostly the flatter hitters — hate this. I knew that John Isner, who stands at almost 7ft tall, and has hit 13, aces in his career , will nearly always end up playing a tiebreak, because his serve is so hard to break.

Yes, you can bet on whether a match will include a tiebreak. I knew the personalities and characteristics of the umpires, the ones most likely to piss off the mercurial Aussie Nick Kyrgios most of them, but especially Carlos Bernardes.

That the gangly Greek, Stefanos Tsitsipas, who resembles a daddy long legs when squatting low and wide in preparation to receive a serve, has a propensity to take bathroom breaks. The unique aspect of betting on sports is that you are handing agency over your finances to strangers.

To weather, even. It is an extraordinarily stupid thing to do. Was I going all in on a talented female player who, unbeknown to me, would not be at her best because she argued with her boyfriend the night before and came on her period that morning?

Rafa Nadal, time Roland Garros champion, prefers to play in the daytime on clay. The court is quicker; the ball bounces higher; the humidity is lower. But what if it rained, and his match was rescheduled to the evening session? The mind of an addict becomes unreasonable, irrational. Because all gamblers have a feeling.

They will win all of their money back this time. At first you have to win £1, back. Then you have to win back £5, And on and on it goes, like a stroke rally which ends each time with the ball slamming into the net. But then, you do win some of it back!

You win thousands, and you think: great, I will use these winnings as a platform to win the rest back. Then Iga Swiatek, world No 1, who has won a record breaking 37 matches in a row , will inexplicably lose. Or, frequently, every leg, bar one, of your accumulator — a bet requiring multiple results to come in — will win.

Gamblers live in a permanent state of if only and what if. I tried to quit many times. I used, and eventually blocked myself from, 16 different online bookies.

When I blocked myself from the bigger sites, I would then use even dodgier outfits: less attractive odds, glitchy websites, opaque terms and conditions. At one point, in true addict style, I roped family into it. I ended up lying to my mother and sister to borrow their bank cards to set up new accounts.

I transferred money to them, so I was still gambling with my own money and not theirs, which was at least something. I had multiple identities on multiple websites.

I was three different people. P eter Coates was born in Stoke-on-Trent in The son of a miner, and the youngest of 14 children, his mother died when he was two.

Nothing fancy: scran in polystyrene clamshells served through hatches. But it kicked off his career as an entrepreneur and he went on to establish a chain of bricks-and-mortar betting shops called Provincial Racing.

Though her big idea to move betting online coincided with the dotcom bubble bursting, her foresight — including developing in-house software and in-play options — paid off big time. Today, Bet has an annual revenue of £2. It has 80 million customers worldwide, and operates in countries, 17 languages, and 29 currencies.

Last year, she employed Foster and Partners — better known for building airports, opera houses, the Millennium Bridge and the reconstruction of Wembley stadium — to design a £90m glass-fronted house with artificial lake and sunken tennis courts on 52 acres of land. The company is, for the most part, still based in Stoke though there are also headquarters in the tax havens Gibraltar and Malta, common for betting outfits.

And Peter, the patriarch, is now joint chairman of his beloved local football club, Stoke City who play in the Bet Stadium. You might say that Bet represents a fantastic British success story.

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