"Sportsbooks.com Reports That Betting is up For the French Open"

Sportsbooks.com, is headquartered in London, England. It is the flagship brand for Sportingbets PLC. The company reports a rising trend in the online gambling community. This trend which is betting on major world tennis tournaments, had become evident when record numbers of bets were placed in the last weekend of the tournament during the recently completed French open. Sportingbets, is the world’s biggest publicly traded online betting, gambling and gaming company. In addition to sports betting , it offers such products as horse race betting, poker, casino games, and virtual games. The company expects that there will be even more wagering on tennis tournaments because Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, the largest events in the world of tennis, are just about to take place.

The women’s final this year which took place between Justine Henin-Hardenne of Belgium and Mary Pierce of France, generated practically 25 percent more in bets as compared with the 2004 final. This year’s men’s final between Marianno Puerta of Argentina and Rafael Nadal of Spain exhibited a slightly higher sum of money wagered than the preceding year, but the true surprise was the increased amount of betting on the men’s semi-finals. This increase in betting came to an amazing 48 percent as compared with the amount of money wagered on last year’s men’s semi-finals.

The increase in the dollar amount of the average bet wagered is yet another gauge of the increase in betting. This year the average bet placed on the men’s final was twelve percent higher than the previous year, and the average bet placed in this year’s men’s semi-finals was almost fifteen percent higher than it was in 2004.

Marketing Director of Sportsbook.com, Alexis Czajkowsky, says that there is a steady and consistent growth in the popularity of gambling on tennis. He went on to say that what is encouraging about the numbers is that they are high in spite of the fact that this has been an off year for American stars such as Agassi, Roddick and the Williams sisters. He explains that the expected improvement of play of the US stars at Wimbledon and the US Open means that fan interest will increase. He argues that there is no reason to expect anything but an improvement in betting numbers this summer.

The growth in parity within both the men and women’s games only contributes to the excitement of betting on the tournaments. In the past it was usually easier to pick a winner. But now that this has become more difficult and the competition is much stiffer, betting has become much more appealing.

Czajkowsky adds that “Sportsbook.com’ odds makers are working very hard to break down the entire field before deriving the odds. He points out that we can no longer rely on just observing the top players. Every player, he says, needs to be considered, in order to offer fans the best possible odds anywhere.