Buses taking ages to come then two coming at once, it always raining when you forget your umbrella, you getting sick before a big day at work and one of the big four in tennis winning in Indian Wells and Miami. These are all things that always just happened, things that, as much as you don’t want them to occur did occur. They are reliable events that could be easily predicted and lent a reassuring feeling when they did.
It might be annoying for it to rain, buses taking a long time to come is annoying and it got a little boring watching Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic dominate tennis’s biggest March and April tournaments, but at least everything felt steady. However, after Juan Martin Del Potro’s win over Federer in Indian Wells and Thanasi Kokkinakis dumping Federer out in Miami. Both the tournaments at Indian Wells and Miami will have non big four winners, which is both wonderful and also important to note.
It seems to suggest that things are changing in tennis, that the old order is being broken down and being changed and that there is space for new stars in the world of tennis. Young stars like Alexander Zverev, Hyeon Chung and more are lighting up tennis while older players like Del Potro are coming back from injuries and playing consistently again.
This has made the next few tournaments, and the clay season in general look very interesting from a number of angles. The French Open betting is wide open with many regular tennis betters sensing this is a great time to go for an outside shot. Nadal is struggling with injury, Federer has pulled out, Djokovic and Murray are both coming back from injuries meaning people like Dominic Thiem at 9/1 and Del Potro at 28/1 could be big winners. These odds look especially good when betting on tennis at Spin Palace Sports and making use of their $200 free bet offer, so even if your outside shot doesn’t win you don’t lose. Tennis is suddenly more open that it has been for a while.
We are so used to seeing the same players do well that it is kind of odd to watch them struggle with injury or be knocked out in the early rounds of tournaments, or losing in finals to players other than one another. It will be great to see how these classic players react and if the new generation have the mental strength that is needed to blend with huge talent if you are to win sports biggest prizes.
Tennis then is interesting now, it is less solid but more predictable, while the level might not be at where it was during the peaks of the Big Four, it is great to see a new era on the horizon. It will be fun to watch a Wimbledon with no clear favourite, it will be great to watch new stars emerge in the United States and it might be an exciting new feeling to see the French Open start without Nadal being by far and away the clear favourite.
