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Unibet was the tennis tipsters’ top choice on the first day of Wimbledon, according to tipster network bettingexpert.com. Unibet was by far the most popular choice of bookmaker among the bettingexpert tipsters as it was selected as the preferred bookie for 24 per cent of all tennis tips – more than second placed bwin and third placed bet365 combined.
Bettingexpert’s Gavin Moore commented: “Unibet has always put a lot of effort into its tennis betting and it’s something the tipsters on our network have picked up on. The data suggests that Unibet was offering some great value over the first day of Wimbledon.”
The first day of Wimbledon proved to be a catalyst for a huge influx of tennis tipping on the bettingexpert.com website, although the super affiliate’s betting partners will have been up at the end of the day. While the first day attracted almost 2,500 tips, only 37.04% of these were successful because of the efficiency of Novak Djokovic. A lot of users backed the match against Philipp Kohlschreiber to go over 31.50 or 32.50 games, but as it ended 6-4, 6-4, 6-4, there were only had 30 games in the match
However the highest profit tip was on the match between Lukas Lacko vs Steve Johnson was this tip: http://www.bettingexpert.com/
Most popular bet type was who to win the match with 925 tips – 37 per cent of tipsters chose this type of bet. The most popular matches of the day were Novak Djokovic vs Jarkko Nieminen (66 tips), Donald Young vs Marcos Baghdatis (66 tips) and Leonardo Mayer vs Thanasi Kokkinakis with 59 tips.
The surge in activity on the first day of Wimbledon was also triggered by bettingexpert.com’s decision to double its prize money for its monthly tipster competition to £6,000. As the month comes to an end tipsters have been making a late bid to take top spot on the June leaderboard and take home the first prize of £2,400.
