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Once at Odds of 66-1, Marketa Vondrousova Now 6-1 to Win French Open Women’s Singles

Robert Duff

by Robert Duff in Tennis

Updated Mar 28, 2020 · 12:45 PM PDT

Marketa Vondrousova
Czech Marketa Vondrousova's odds of winning the French Open women's singles title have dropped from 66-1 to 6-1. Photo by: Carine06 (Flickr) [CC License]
  • Marketa Vondrousova has advanced to the quarterfinals of the French Open
  • The Czech player opened at odds of 66-1 to win the tournament
  • She enters the final eight with odds of 6-1

When the French Open was about to get underway, Marketa Vondrousova’s chances of pulling off the upset in the women’s singles tournament were being strongly touted by a highly-placed tennis source.

Former world no. 1 and two-time French Open finalist Kim Clijsters was strongly in Vondrousova’s corner. She touted the 19-year-old from the Czech Republic as someone who was capable of winning at Roland-Garros.

2019 French Open Women’s Singles Odds

Player Odds
Simona Halep +125
Sloane Stephens +450
Ashleigh Barty +600
Marketa Vondrousova +600
Johanna Konta +900
Madison Keys +1000
Petra Martic +1200
Amanda Anisimova +1600

*Odds taken on 06/03/19.

As Vondrousova prepares to face Croatia’s Petra Martic in the quarterfinals, sportsbooks have also grown to like her chances. The unseeded Czech teen opened the tournament with odds of +6600 to win it all. If you didn’t get on board the Vondrousova train when it left the station, there’s still some profitable seats available at her current French Open odds of +600.

Just two years ago, unseeded Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia won the French Open women’s singles title.

Youth Being Served

Three teenagers were able to reach the Round of 16 at Roland-Garros. Two of them survived through to the quarterfinals. Vondrousova cut a swath through Anastasija Sevastova. She required just 59 minutes to dispose of the 12th-seeded Latvian player 6-2, 6-0. Sevastova made 24 unforced errors and managed just seven winners.

Amanda Anisimova, 17, also advanced to quarterfinal play.

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Three-time champion Serena Williams was bounced in the third round. The no. 1 (Naomi Osaka) and no. 2 (Karolina Pliskova) seeds also made third-round exits. Injuries led to the early departures of Petra Kvitova and Kiki Bertens.

Just three of the top eight seeds remain in the hunt for the title. Both of last year’s finalists – champion Simona Halep and runner-up Sloane Stephens – are still alive. But there hasn’t been a finals rematch since 1995-96, when Steffi Graf won consecutive titles from Arantxa Sanchez Vicario.

Could Vondrousova Get It Done?

It’s not out of the realm of possibility. Martic won’t be an easy out. She’s 16-2 on clay this season, including a 1-6, 6-4, 6-1 win over Vondrouskova in the final at Istanbul. Martic is 4-0 lifetime against Vondrouskova. That includes a victory earlier this year at the Australian Open.

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If she can find a way past Martic, anything is possible. But history says she won’t be able to overcome this hurdle.

The quarterfinal that could decide a winner is the Madison Keys-Ashleigh Barty matchup. It’s the only one of the four matches that features two of the top 15 seeds. That is to say, Keys has been on the verge of a breakthrough for a while. She posted semifinal appearances last year at the French and US Opens.

At +1000, she’s hard to pass up here.

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