Some major Wimbledon 1st round upsets, a Sadio Mane brace and a delightful Cricket World Cup dead rubber all feature in Spreadex’s Daily Spread Betting Roundup!

Teen Gauff eclipses Venus – Wimbledon
While there might have been a few shocks in the men’s side of the competition – namely the early exits of Stefanos Tsitsipas and Alexander Zverev – the headline story coming out of the 1st round of Wimbledon was Venus Williams’ defeat at the hands of the 15-year old Cori Gauff.

Already the youngest ever player to qualify for Wimbledon proper in the Open Era, Gauff dispatched of her self-professed idol in pretty quick fashion, winning 6-4 6-4. Anyone who backed the teen might have been as overwhelmed as she was by the end of match, given that her Gauff to win binary spread of 22.2-27.8 made-up to 100.


Osaka punished by Putintseva – Wimbledon
After ending 2018 with her first Grand Slam title at the US Open, and opening 2019 with a victory in Oz, no. 2 seed Naomi Osaka will have had high hopes for Wimbledon this year. Well, she better get planning for 2020, as Yulia Putintseva knocked her out in the 1st round.

The most interesting market to watch was the binary Putinseva to win 2-0. Starting at 12.5-21.1, it had fallen as low as 1.9-9.1 as Osaka went 3-1 up in the 1st set. But then the Kazakh star fought back 7-5, before breezing through the 2nd set 6-2. If you’d bought at that aforementioned 1.9-9.1 spread, you could have won 90.9 times your initial stake.


Sadio Mane nabs Kenyan brace – African Cup of Nations
Liverpool’s Sadio Mane scored twice in the space of 6 minutes in Senegal’s final African Cup of Nations group game against Kenya, helping confirm a place in the last-16 for the Lions of Teranga following Ismaila Sarr’s opener. From an original Sadio Mane SMM of 30-36, the market made-up to 227, meaning you could have snagged 191 times your initial stake.


Sri Lanka and West Indies put on delicious dead rubber – Cricket World Cup
Though the match was a dead rubber – the nations are already eliminated – Sri Lanka and the West Indies put on a show, the former’s 338 runs beating out the latter’s 315. There were fours galore throughout the fixture, including 11 alone from Nicholas Pooran, who totalled 118 runs at the Riverside Ground. All in all Sri Lanka managed 32 fours to the West Indies’ 38, resulting in a Multi-Fours make-up of 1216 against an opening spread of 420-480. That’s 736 times your initial stake.