The Eastbourne Open is held each year at Devonshire Park in the week preceding the Wimbledon Grand Slam Tournament and is part of the WTA 250 tour. Open to 32 players in the singles tournament, I will be looking at the fates this year of the top 8 seeds in my ongoing research into laying seeded players on the WTA tour.
This year the top 8 seeded players were
- Kasatkina
- Krejcicova
- Ostapenko
- Kenin
- Linette
- Stearns
- Raducanu
- Sramkova
The 1st round saw 3 of the top 8 seeds lose or retire through injury and these were Kasatkina, the No 1 seed who lost her match 2-1 to Sun 7-5/2-6/6-3 and was odds on at 1.39 to win. Next on the chop list was Kenin, the No 4 seed who lost to Birrell in straight sets 6-4/6-4, her odds to win the match were 1.52 The final casualty of the seeded players in the 1st round was Linette who after losing the 1st set 6-4 was also losing the second set 4-2 when she sustained a knee injury forcing her to concede the match and punters cash at odds of 2.28.
So a quick summary of round 1 would, if we had laid each of the top 8 seeded players for a liability of £1.00, our maximum possible loss would have been £8.00 if all seeded players won.
As mentioned above, there were 3 of the top 8 seeded players who were knocked out in the 1st round
The table below shows, working from a bank of £10.00, a slight (15p) profit if we had laid the players at the exchange for a £1.00 liability.
Going into the 2nd round with our bank in profit the remaining top 8 seeded players just tumbled from the tournament as the following table shows with the only survivor being Krejcikova and a second round profit for us of £6.67
The last of the top 8 seeded players, Krejcikova, sustained an injury before the Quarter finals and withdrew from the tournament Leaving us with a Tournament profit of £6.82.
In Summary
Just as many tournaments before, the Eastbourne Open is not immune to seeded players falling at the 1st or 2nd hurdles. We can take advantage of this by either Backing the underdog at a sportsbook or laying the seeded player at an exchange such as Smarkets, Betdaq or Betfair. Please subscibe to my blog to get regular updates on my research into the WTA tour and the fate of the favorites.
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Disclaimer.
Please gamble responsibly and dont bet more than you can afford. The content of this post is historical fact and in no way guarantees the out come of future tournaments.
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