Ten years after he conquered Wimbledon as a fresh-faced 21-year-old, Lleyton Hewitt is now a longer price to win his opening match in 2012 than he was to win the men’s singles title that year!
Hewitt, 31, has a monumental first-up task as a despised $6.50 outsider against Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga ($1.11). “He’ll have his supporters tonight Hewitt, but big punters aren’t the slightest bit tempted by the high price, especially with Tsonga in pretty good form coming in,” Luxbet’s Neil Evans said.
Tomic, the young gun with the “yo-yo” form, is a hot $1.28 favourite on Luxbet to get past little-known David Goffin ($3.65) in round 1 and heads into Wimbledon a $151.00 outright shot.
Defending champion Novak Djokovic is a clear-cut favourite to win the title again ($2.60 into $2.50), and amaz ingly holds 70 percent of all monies bet into the winner’s book! He’s a raging $1.01 to begin his defence with a win against veteran Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero ($15.00) and, according to Evans, his dominance at the All England Club has ignited multi punters!
“One client has had $4,000.00 on a four-leg multi – Jorge Lorenzo to win the MotoGP riders’ title into Melbourne Storm to reach the Grand Final into Adelaide Crows to win the Minor Premiership into Djokovic at Wimbledon to collect $80,000.00, while another plonked $3,000.00 on a three-leg multi – Wests Tigers (-6.0) tonight into Spain in its Euro semi-final and Djokovic to win $20,000.00,” Evans said. “Hundreds of smaller punters have had multi’s up to 20 legs, and Djokovic is right through the lot!”
In the Ladies draw, Maria Sharapova has been well backed from an opening $4.00 into $3.40 favourite, displacing Serena Williams ($3.50 out to $3.65).
World number two Caroline Wozniacki, still striving for that elusive Grand Slam victory, has already created some sort of record! “Never before has such a high-ranked WTA player started any Grand Slam tournament at $51.00,” Evans said.
MEN’S SINGLES – RD 1
$1.11 FERNANDO VERDASCO
$6.50 JIMMY WANG
$1.01 NOVAK DJOKOVIC
$15.00 JUAN CARLOS FERRERO
$2.20 DAVID NALBANDIAN
$1.67 JANKO TIPSAREVIC
$1.37 XAVIER MALISSE
$3.10 MARINKO MATOSEVIC
$1.01 ROGER FEDERER
$15.00 ALBERT RAMOS-VINOLAS
$11.00 JAMIE BAKER
$1.04 ANDY RODDICK
$12.00 NIKOLAY DAVYDENKO
$1.03 ANDY MURRAY
$1.11 JO-WILFRIED TSONGA
$6.50 LLEYTON HEWITT
$1.28 BERNARD TOMIC
$3.65 DAVID GOFFIN
$15.00 THOMAZ BELLUCCI
$1. 01 RAFAEL NADAL
WIMBLEDON – MEN’S WINNER
$2.50 NOVAK DJOKOVIC (in from $2.60)
$3.00 RAFAEL NADAL
$5.75 ROGER FEDERER (out from $5.50)
$14.00 ANDY MURRAY
$31.00 TOMAS BERDYCH
$31.00 JO-WILFRIED TSONGA
$34.00 MILOS RAONIC
$41.00 JUAN-MARTIN DEL POTRO
$81.00 JOHN ISNER
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$151.00 ANDY RODDICK
$151.00 BERNARD TOMIC
$401.00 LLEYTON HEWITT
$2.50 NOVAK DJOKOVIC
$1.50 THE FIELD
$3.00 RAFAEL NADAL
$1.36 THE FIELD
$5.75 ROGER FEDERER
$1.12 THE FIELD
LADIES SINGLES – RD 1
$5.85 CARLA SUAREZ-NAVARRO
$1.13 SAM STOSUR
$1.16 VENUS WILLIAMS
$5.25 ELENA VESNINA
$1.01 MARIA SHARAPOVA
$15.00 ANASTASIA RODIONOV A
$1.34 KIM CLIJSTERS
$3.25 JELENA JANKOVIC
$1.02 SERENA WILLIAMS
$13.00 BARBORA ZAHLAVOVA STRYCOVA
$1.41 CAROLINE WOZNIACKI
$2.90 TAMIRA PASZEK
$5.40 CASEY DELLACQUA
$1.15 MARION BARTOLI
$1.17 ANA IVANOVIC
$5.00 MARIA JOSE MARTINEZ SANCHEZ
$10.00 IRINA FALCONI
$1.05 VICTORIA AZARENKA
$15.00 AKGUL AMANMURADOVA
$1.01 PETR KVITOVA
WIMBLEDON – LADIES WINNER
$3.40 MARIA SHARAPOVA
$3.65 SERENA WILLIAMS
$6.50 PETR KVITOVA
$8.50 VICTORIA AZARENKA
$19.00 KIM CLIJSTERS
$26.00 VENUS WILLIAMS
$31.00 ANGELIQUE KERBER
$31.00 NA LI
$34.00 SAM STOSUR
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$51.00 CAROLINE WOZNIACKI
$751.00 CASEY DELLACQUA
$3.40 MARIA SHARAPOVA
$1.30 THE FIELD
$6.50 PETR KVITOVA
$1.10 THE FIELD
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$3.65 SERENA WILLIAMS
$1.26 THE FIELD
$8.50 VICTORIA AZARENKA
$1.06 THE FIELD