The biggest tennis event in online wagering has officially gotten underway with the opening matches of the Wimbledon Championships being played at the All England Tennis Club. One of the four Major tennis betting events, there is no other single tournament that creates the same kind of buzz or is held in the same esteem anywhere in online wagering.
This online wagering tennis championship has been dominated for most of the past decade by one man: Roger Federer. No athlete in any sport has so dominated a single sports betting event the way that Federer has dominated at Wimbledon. He has reached the finals of this online wagering event for the past seven straight years. He has won the event six of those seven years and has the record for most consecutive wins at the Wimbledon tennis betting and this year, with another win, could tie the career mark for number wins at Wimbledon set by American tennis betting legend, Pete Sampras (8).
In years past the only logical online wager to make was to bet on Federer to win this tournament and just about every year it seemed like he did. But the former greatest player in tennis betting is not the same player that he used to be and this year he will not win the Wimbledon tennis betting event.
Federer will open the tournament as the number one seed and the favorite in the tennis betting odds but that hardly guarantees him a win. After all, it’s been five months since he’s won a single event title. And we’re not talking about Grand Slam events; he hasn’t won any king of tennis betting tournament in nearly half a year. That’s hardly the record of a champion.
He recently also gave up his world #1 title to Spaniard Rapha Nadal who suffered through a rough 2009 online wagering season but has bounced back in 2010 to establish himself as the best player in tennis betting. Nadal is the only man to have beaten Federer in the Wimbledon tennis betting in the past seven years and he seems more than up to the challenge this year.
However, Federer may not even advance far enough to meet Nadal in the finals as there are several great players like Andy Murray and Andy Roddick who have a real shot at sending the Swiss champion home early.