Customers of the Betfair website will have access to live coverage of the Australian Open Tennis Championship on their computers. Live tennis will be shown up to six of the show courts at one time. Betfair is able to show the live coverage of the event because they are the Official Sports Betting Operator for the Australian Open 2009.

Customers must pay a £10 subscription to access the live streaming coverage of the tournament. Customers can also a £5 bet on any match. This bet will allow the customers to watch the match they bet on and the ones that follow on the same court that same day.

Betfair’s sports betting section is covering the following bets:

Who will be the Australian Open Men’s winner?
Who will be the Australian Open Women’s winner?
How far each of the men's big 4: Federer, Murray, Nadal or Djokovic will progress?
What nationality the women's winner will be?
Whether we will have a new women's champion or will a previous champion do it again?

Right now Betfair has odds of 3.4 on Roger Federer to win the Men’s tournament with Andy Murray in second with 3.85 and Rafael Nadal at 5.6. In the women’s division, Betfair has the Williams sisters, Serena and Venus, going head to head as the favorite with Venus at 4.9 and Serena at 5.1. Jelena Jankovic is next at 7.4 and Elena Dementieva is next at 8.2.



- 2009-01-19