Betting on Wimbledon means betting on grass-court tennis in two 128-player singles draws, where men’s matches run to five sets and women’s to three. Across the last five editions, 21.2% of completed men’s main-draw matches went the full five sets and 33.7% of women’s matches went to a third.

The next Championships run from June 28 to July 11, 2027, the dates on the official Wimbledon site, which bills the year as 150 years of The Championships. Jannik Sinner and Linda Noskova are the singles champions, and their title odds are on our men’s Wimbledon odds and women’s Wimbledon odds pages.

How the Wimbledon draw works

Each singles draw has 128 players, so a champion wins seven matches. In 2026 the men’s draw carried 32 seeds, and 16 players in each draw came through a qualifying event of three rounds.

Qualifying starts a week before the main draw. In 2026 the men’s qualifying began on June 22 and the first round of the main draw on June 29, both on ESPN’s Wimbledon scoreboard. A player who reaches the main draw through qualifying has already played three matches on grass that week, which is worth knowing when you price a first-round match against a seed.

The main Wimbledon bets

The match bet, or moneyline, is on who wins. Read the price as a chance: a player at -250 is priced at 71.4%, and a player at +200 at 33.3%. Those two figures are illustrations, not quotes; our moneyline guide shows the working.

Set betting asks how many sets the winner takes. A men’s player at -1.5 sets has to win 3-0 or 3-1, and a player at +1.5 sets covers by winning, or by losing 3-2. Straight sets are common at Wimbledon, but not the rule: 278 of the 613 completed men’s matches from 2022 to 2026 finished in three sets, which is 45.4%.

Total games is an over/under on every game played in the match. At FanDuel, whose house rules were approved by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission on March 27, 2025, a tiebreak counts as one game. The 2026 men’s final, 6-7, 7-6, 6-3, 6-4, came to 45 games; the women’s final, 6-2, 5-7, 6-3, came to 29.

What the last five Wimbledons say about sets

This table counts every completed main-draw singles match, from ESPN’s results. Retirements and walkovers are left out.

Year	Men: 3 sets	Men: 4 sets	Men: 5 sets	Women: 2 sets	Women: 3 sets
2026	58	41	23	75	52
2025	54	44	24	86	39
2024	48	36	37	86	37
2023	56	49	21	76	47
2022	62	35	25	90	35

The 2024 men’s draw is the outlier, with 37 five-setters. The women’s draw of 2026 is the other one: 52 matches went to a third set, 15 more than in 2024.

For totals, the middle of the men’s range sits in the high 30s. The median men’s match had 38 games in 2026 and 36 in 2025, and 62 of the 122 completed men’s matches in 2026 went over 37.5 games. The median women’s match had 21 games in 2026.

Where the upsets come from

Seeds lose early every year. Between six and 13 men’s seeds went out in the first round in each edition from 2022 to 2026, and between four and 10 women’s seeds.

The two draws then split at the top. The men’s title went to the first seed in four of those five years, and to the third seed, Carlos Alcaraz, in 2024. The women’s champions were seeded 17th in 2022, unseeded in 2023, 31st in 2024, eighth in 2025 and ninth in 2026, when Noskova beat Karolina Muchova 6-2, 5-7, 6-3.

A deciding-set tiebreak is a regular part of the draw now. Novak Djokovic won the fifth set of his 2026 quarterfinal against Felix Auger-Aliassime in a tiebreak, 10-4, and nine men’s matches and eight women’s matches that year were decided that way.

Retirements and how they settle

Retirements hit men’s bets more. From 2022 to 2026, 22 of the 635 men’s main-draw matches ended in a retirement or a walkover, against 12 women’s matches.

FanDuel’s rules treat the bets differently. A match bet on the player who retires is void, and a bet on the player who goes through is a winner. A walkover voids the match. A total games bet is void on a retirement unless it was already settled: FanDuel’s example is Over 18.5 games at 7-6, 5-0, which wins, because the match was bound to pass 18 games.

Before you bet on Wimbledon

Prices on the same match differ from book to book. A favorite at -250 is priced at 71.4% and the same player at -230 at 69.7%, and that gap is paid on every bet you make over two weeks. Compare the books in our sportsbook reviews, and read our handicapper site reviews before you pay for tennis picks.

Paid tennis picks are sold by the best handicappers. The same markets run at the three other Grand Slams, which FanDuel’s rules name as the Australian Open, the French Open and the US Open. Our tennis betting guide explains tennis betting beyond Wimbledon.