Tennis Odds Spotlight on the ATP Mercedes Cup

One tournament of interest for most tennis odds followers is the ATP Mercedes Cup competition held from July 6th to June 12th.

Tennis odds fans that just can’t get enough of the clay action will get one more chance during the week in July as the Mercedes Cup is the last of the major clay court tennis betting odds event of the season. Held in Stuttgart Germany, it’s also one of the last times that a European tennis odds event takes center stage until late in the summer. The tennis betting odds world will mostly be focused on the North America tournaments in mid-July but the Mercedes event is the one exception.

With a purse of 450,000 Euros there is plenty of incentive for players to give it their all in the tennis odds. But the winners at this tennis betting odds event also drive off with a new Mercedes courtesy of the major sponsor.

Not surprisingly, this is a tennis odds event dominated by Europeans and clay court specialists at that. Rapha Nadal has been the tennis odds victor here twice as has Austrian clay legend Tomas Muster. No American has topped the tennis betting odds here since Andre Agassi did in 1988. In the past decade though, it’s been the Argentineans and Brazilians that have posted the most impressive records in this tennis odds event.

Juan Martin del Potro took the title last year and if he plays the event will be among the heavy favorites to repeat as champ. His countryman Gaston Gaudio has also fared well here over the years and after back to back second place finishes in the tennis odds in ’04 and ’05 and will certainly be among the favorites.

It’s unlikely that Nadal will be in the field this year either from injury or because he’ll be playing in North America preparing for the hard court tennis betting odds. There should be very little US presence at this event and the tennis odds title will almost certainly go to a European or South American.

This is the first year that the Mercedes Cup will be played as an ATP Tour 250 series but that should have little effect on the tennis odds outcome. The top seeds in this tournament will mostly all be clay specialists who haven’t much of a shot at the US Open tennis odds tournament.

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