The first round finishes up from the All England Club on Tuesday and there are plenty of matches to like from a betting perspective. Let's look at a pair of Wimbledon matches below.
Here are my previews for Arthur Fils – Dominic Stricker and Quentin Halys – Chris Eubanks in my Tuesday Wimbledon picks.
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Tuesday Wimbledon Picks
Arthur Fils (-278) vs Dominic Stricker (+210)
8 a.m. ET
I don't see as much daylight between these two youngsters as the market does. Obviously Fils has burst onto the scene and his talent is undeniable, but he has struggled for form a bit this year, and that's because his powerful game has proven a bit tougher for him to rein in and the unforced errors have flowed.
Stricker had been making progress a year ago and is also armed with a huge serve and powerful lefty forehand, but he has been out just about the whole season with an injury. In fact, the last month or so on grass has been the first time we've seen him play in 2024.
This price may indicate the belief there's still some rust to shake off for the Swiss southpaw, but the total being up at 40.5 games is also telling. This should be a serve-centric, close affair.
If Fils was tearing up the tour, I'd be more inclined to leave this alone, but he's thrown away his fair share of service games with poor mistakes. Doing that against Stricker could very well mean the set is lost.
I'd advise splitting the stake between the first set moneyline and full match moneyline to guard against a potential drop off from Stricker in best-of-five play newly back from injury, but with points surely being fairly quick, I still think the moneyline is worth a bit of money.
Picks: Stricker 1st set ML (+150 via BetMGM) | Stricker ML (+210 via BetMGM)
Quentin Halys (-120) vs Chris Eubanks (-102)
11 a.m. ET
Look, I know Eubanks has been awful this season. It's almost certainly regression after he racked up a slew of points by winning the Mallorca title and making the Wimbledon quarters a year ago.
That was him playing over his head and the chickens are coming home to roost. Eubanks on the main circuit this year has been exposed as a relatively one dimensional player with his backhand no longer coming up with crazy counter-punching type points and looking to be a pretty big weakness.
That said, he's playing someone who, prior to qualifying at Roehampton, had also been playing some pretty bad tennis in 2024.
Halys is very similar in his approach to how he plays, with a big serve and first strike tennis being his calling cards.
The difference maker here for me is the fact that I've seen Halys throw away more service games than I've seen from Eubanks. The American can find himself in trouble on serve against guys that can get points started and extend rallies, but against fellow servers, I'm much less concerned about his serve being vulnerable.
With the money continuing to come in on his French opponent and Eubanks now the underdog, I'll take a small position on him to advance and defend at least one round's worth of his 2023 points.
Pick: Eubanks ML (-102 via BetRivers)
