Tennis betting tips and outright winner odds for this week's ATP & WTA events

Free tennis tips, best bets and analysis for this week's ATP & WTA grass-court tournaments, which start on Monday.

Where to watch

ATP Cinch Championship BBC & Amazon Prime
ATP Noventi Open Amazon Prime
WTA Viking Classic BBC
WTA Berlin Open Amazon Prime
All tournaments start Monday

Best bets

Reilly Opelka to win ATP Cinch Championship
1pt 12-1 Coral, Ladbrokes

Ajla Tomljanovic to win WTA Viking Classic
1pt 50-1 bet365, BoyleSports

Tournament previews

ATP Cinch Championship

The Italians have shown they still love London with five of their top six players competing in the Cinch Championship, which starts on grass at the Queen's Club on Monday.

Four of those five are seeded, too, with Matteo Berrettini topping the bill, Jannik Sinner third, Lorenzo Sonego seventh and Fabio Fognini the eighth black-type contestant.

It will be interesting to see how Sinner fares on grass. The 19-year-old is from the very north of Italy and his physical strength should be suited to the demands of the terrain. However, one or two others are preferred this week.

Regarding the home contingent, Andy Murray, five times Queen's king between 2009 and 2016, gets a wild-card and opens with a clash against even wilder card Benoit Paire and a possible date with Berrettini or Travaglia in round two.

Murray's record means he can't be ruled out, while Birmingham's Dan Evans, seeded sixth this week, could meet the Scot in the last eight. Evans has been playing so well that he could also have a big say.

Of the past winners, defending champion Feliciano Lopez is bidding to win the title for the third time after triumphs in 2017 and 2019 – the tournament wasn't staged last year due to the pandemic. And Stuttgart hero Marin Cilic, Baron's Court king in 2012 and 2018, is also chasing a third title.

Other seeds include Denis Shapovalov, Alex de Minaur and Aslan Karatsev, all of whom have credentials to prosper.

Lopez is in the easier half of the draw and could again shine, but in an open-looking heat a chance is given to big-serving American giant Reilly Opelka coming through a draw that may see him having to get past De Minaur, Cilic and possibly even Murray.

ATP Noventi Open

The Noventi Open, which starts in Halle on Monday, is this week's best-quality tournament with Daniil Medvedev, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Alexander Zverev, Andrey Rublev and Roger Federer due to be the top five seeds.

It would not be a major surprise to see Tsitsipas withdraw from Halle after contesting the French Open final on Sunday and so punters should be alive to that possibility, which would leave Rublev in the bottom half of the draw along with seeds David Goffin and Gael Monfils.

Federer has won this tournament ten times between 2003 and 2019 – the event was lost to the pandemic last year – and the Swiss legend, who turns 40 in August, fancies his chance of another good run in Germany this week.

The only other past champion in the field is 2011 winner Philipp Kohlschreiber, but Alexander Zverev, finalist in 2016 and 2017, could be more of a danger to Federer.

Goffin, runner-up to Federer in 2019, tries to go one better but Federer played so well in reaching the last 16 of the French Open that he looks the bet for an 11th Halle triumph when the bookmakers are comfortable issuing prices.

WTA Viking Classic

British number one Johanna Konta, the newly-crowned Nottingham Open champion, is not competing in the WTA Viking Classic, which starts in Birmingham on Monday, and the home nation is represented in Edgbaston by Heather Watson and wild-cards Harriet Dart and Francesca Jones.

However, it will be a surprise if a home win is posted given that the seeded list features Elise Mertens, Ons Jabeur, 2013 Edgbaston finalist Donna Vekic, Daria Kasatkina, Jelena Ostapenko, Konta's title rival in Nottingham Shuai Zhang, Fiona Ferro and Marie Bouzkova.

This is not a vintage Priory Club field, where recent champions have included Angie Kerber, Madison Keys, Petra Kvitova and Ash Barty. Many of the WTA's top stars had signed up to play in Berlin this week but many of those have pulled out from the German event in recent days.

Seeds Vekic and Bouzkova have definite claims of lifting this year's Edgbaston trophy. But at the prices it could be worth taking a chance on unseeded Ajla Tomljanovic causing a hefty upset by ousting Mertens, who is a big runner herself, and going on to capture her maiden main-tour title.

Tomljanovic has lacked self-belief, but she has ability and is playing reasonably well and the Croatia-born Australian has the strength and the game to prosper on grass.

WTA Berlin Open

The newly-arranged Berlin Open has been haemorrhaging big-name players in the past week with Ash Barty, Naomi Osaka and Petra Kvitova among a raft of stars to pull out of the tournament.

Those to have stayed include seeds Aryna Sabalenka, Elina Svitolina, Bianca Andreescu, Karolina Pliskova, Belinda Bencic, Garbine Muguruza, Victoria Azarenka and Karolina Muchova, but there were no signs of any prices early on Sunday evening.

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