French Open 2018 Betting - We've got it all for your Winning Bet on the Roland Garros tournament

First contested in 1891 (the women’s event started six years later) as the Championnat de France, the 2018 French Open will be the 117th edition of the event.  Until 1924 the tournament was for French nationals or foreign members of French tennis clubs only.

The second of the four Grand Slam events to be played each year, the French Open is widely regarded as being the most physically-demanding, with the red clay favouring those players suited to playing long rallies from the back of the court on the slower surface.

During the amateur era at the start of the 20th century the championship was dominated by Max Decugis, who won eight titles between 1903 and 1914. Rafael Nadal has gone on to surpass that tally with a remarkable 10 titles to his name.

Only Bjorn Borg with six titles comes close to matching Nadal’s dominance in Paris in the “open era” (when professionals were first permitted to play in Grand Slam events in 1968).

French Open Free Bets 2018

French Open 2018 free bets are another great way to cover all bases when betting on big tournaments. A French Open free bet will give you access to exactly that even if you lose your original bet. If you’ve bet on Murray to win in the final and he gets knocked out in the quarterfinals, use your free bet to bet on your next favourite. Free bets often have no restrictions, meaning you can withdraw the money from a free bet like it was your own money in the first place. Alternatively, it will be credited into your account which just means you have to use the same bookies, next time you place a bet. Checking the terms and conditions before you place a free bet is always recommended so you can ensure you’re meeting all the criteria.

Top French Open Free Bets & Betting Offers

French Open 2018 free bets can sometimes be used if you’re an existing customer, but if you’re new to a site, there are tons of great betting offers for the French Open 2018 for New Customers only. The tournament is widely televised due to it’s popularity, which is why there so many chances to win more for your money, just make sure you look out for the best free bets for French Open 2018, to really increase your chances. Tennis is growing in popularity each year, with more young players picking up a racket and hitting the courts. Bookies know this and offer great odds in order to attract new customers – if you’ve never bet before but think you know who will win the Open, now’s the chance to capitalise on these better odds bets.

French Open Betting Offers & Markets

Betting on the Outright markets and individual match results (with many punters opting to put a number of such selections into an accumulator bet) are the easiest bets to understand in tennis, but there are plenty of other options available too.

Total Games is a popular market, similar to Total Goals in football where an online bookmaker will set a figure for how many games will be played before the match is decided and the punter has to choose whether the actual total will be over or under that figure.

Among other French Open betting options there is also Set Betting (total number of sets played in the match), 1st Set Winner, 1st Set Total Games (Over/Under), Tie-break to be played in the match (will there be one?), Tie-break to be played in the 1st Set, Number of Sets (Over/Under) and Handicap Betting (betting on either player that has been awarded a handicap).

Once the main draw has been made there will be a multitude of 2018 French Open betting offers and French Open free bets available from various bookmakers, with options to back a player winning the tournament without dropping a set, the total number of games played in any given match and many others besides.  There will also be offers such Tennis ‘Acca insurance’, odds boosts and money back specials.

French Open 2018 free bets will be widely offered, particularly should you be a new customer of a site.  Freebets.co.uk will have full details of all the latest and best free bet offers and other promotions related to the French Open 2018, so ensure that you check regularly for all the very latest free bets on the market.

Roland Garros Schedule

The French Open 2018 is scheduled to begin on Sunday 27th May, with the official draw for both the Men’s and Women’s events taking place following the Stade Roland-Garros qualifiers.

The tournament proper starts in the 1st round with 128 players in both the Men’s and Women’s draw.

Listed below is the round-by-round breakdown of the schedule for both the Men’s and Women’s events, although these are both subject to possible delays for weather and any other disruptions.

  • Qualifying– Monday 21st to Friday 25th May 2018
  • 1st Round– Sunday 27th to Tuesday 29th May 2018
  • 2nd Round– Wednesday 30th & Thursday 31st May 2018
  • 3rd Round– Friday 1st & Saturday 2nd June 2018
  • 4th Round– Sunday 3rd & Monday 4th June 2018
  • Quarter Finals– Tuesday 5th & Wednesday 6th June 2018
  • Semi Finals– Thursday 7th & Friday 8th June 2018
  • Women’s Final– Saturday 9th June 2018
  • Men’s Final– Sunday 10th  June 2018

Roland Garros Live Streaming

ITV, ITV2 and Eurosport hold the broadcasting rights for French Open 2018 in the UK, but you can also get extensive live tennis streaming of the event from a number of bookmakers, such as bet365, Betfair, Coral and Unibet.

Live streaming of tennis and other sports is restricted to generally registered users of the sites with funded and active accounts, but it’s not always necessary to bet on the event in order to watch (however, this will vary from bookmaker to bookmaker).

For those that want the ability to watch events at Roland Garros unfolding whilst out and about, it can certainly pay to open an account with one of the bookmakers offering live streaming, particularly if there is also the option of a free bet that comes with it.

French Open Winners

Want to base you bet on who’s won in the past? It’s pretty one sided with, with Nadal in good contention. Here are all of the winners and runners up of the French Open since the year 2000:

2000 BRA Gustavo Kuerten SWE Magnus Norman 6–2, 6–3, 2–6, 7–6(8–6)
2001 BRA Gustavo Kuerten ESP Àlex Corretja 6–7(3–7), 7–5, 6–2, 6–0
2002 ESP Albert Costa ESP Juan Carlos Ferrero 6–1, 6–0, 4–6, 6–3
2003 ESP Juan Carlos Ferrero NED Martin Verkerk 6–1, 6–3, 6–2
2004 ARG Gastón Gaudio ARG Guillermo Coria 0–6, 3–6, 6–4, 6–1, 8–6
2005 ESP Rafael Nadal ARG Mariano Puerta 6–7(6–8), 6–3, 6–1, 7–5
2006 ESP Rafael Nadal  SUI Roger Federer 1–6, 6–1, 6–4, 7–6(7–4)
2007 ESP Rafael Nadal  SUI Roger Federer 6–3, 4–6, 6–3, 6–4
2008 ESP Rafael Nadal  SUI Roger Federer 6–1, 6–3, 6–0
2009  SUI Roger Federer SWE Robin Söderling 6–1, 7–6(7–1), 6–4
2010 ESP Rafael Nadal SWE Robin Söderling 6–4, 6–2, 6–4
2011 ESP Rafael Nadal  SUI Roger Federer 7–5, 7–6(7–3), 5–7, 6–1
2012 ESP Rafael Nadal SRB Novak Djokovic 6–4, 6–3, 2–6, 7–5
2013 ESP Rafael Nadal ESP David Ferrer 6–3, 6–2, 6–3
2014 ESP Rafael Nadal SRB Novak Djokovic 3–6, 7–5, 6–2, 6–4
2015  ESP Stan Wawrinka SRB Novak Djokovic 4–6, 6–4, 6–3, 6–4
2016 ESP Novak Djokovic GBR Andy Murray 3–6, 6–1, 6–2, 6–4
2017 ESP Rafael Nadal SUI Stan Wawrinka 6–2, 6–3, 6–2, 6–1

Use our Betting Tips for French Open 2018

Our French Open 2018 betting predictions are compiled by industry experts – the people who know the game inside out. We’ve analyse years of player data; their trends, win ratios, and injury history to get the most accurate predictions for this year.

With in game betting becoming increasingly popular over the years, we’re also seeing a lot of head to head betting. This type of betting allows you to pitch 2 players together and bet on who will come out on top a head to head or player v player betting preview lets you bet on all aspects of the game. For example, you can bet on Djokovic scoring more points than Murray in the first game or go into even more detail and predict who will win more aces or who will be penalised for having the most double-fouls.

 You can read our tips and back players based on their average stats or take a punt and go with your gut and bet on the outcomes you think will happen most, player versus player. Find out all the best free bets, the most lucrative enhanced odds and the most likely player vs player previews right here.

French Open 2018 Betting Updates

Roland Garros 2018 Recap

Both the Men’s and Women’s Singles titles went with the top seeds and pre-tournament favourites at the French Open, although if there was a certain inevitability about Rafael Nadal’s 11th title win on the red clay of Roland Garros, that certainly wasn’t the case with Simona Halep.

Rafael Nadal lost just a single set in the tournament, with Argentinean Diego Schwartzman briefly threatening a major upset in the quarter-finals.

In the final Nadal saw off Austria’s Dominic Thiem (playing in his first Grand Slam final) in straight sets, to stretch his record at Roland Garros to just two defeats in 87 matches dating back to his debut there in 2005.

Despite being top seed and world number one, the 26 year-old Romanian Simona Halep had never won a Grand Slam event before clinching the title in Paris.

It looked like being another frustrating afternoon as she trailed current US Open champion Sloane Stephens by a set and a break of serve in the final, but then won 11 of the next 14 games to secure the long-awaited first Grand Slam title.

7/6/2018 Update – Nadal drops set but rain holds off French Open quarterfinal

The Women’s French Open semi-finals will see world number one and top seed Simona Halep up against the 2016 champion Garbine Muguruza, with the other semi being an all-American clash between Sloane Stephens and Madison Keys in a repeat of the 2017 US Open final.

In the Men’s event, the red-hot favourite Rafael Nadal was a set and a break down to Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman before rain intervened. On resumption, the 10-time French Open champion Nadal rallied to take a 5-3 lead in the second set before the rain returned and play was abandoned for the day. The momentum is now with the Spaniard, but Schwartzman has taken the first set off Nadal in Paris since 2015.

4/6/2018 Update – Zverev and Thiem Set for a Battle

Rafael Nadal’s seemingly relentless march towards an 11th title at the French Open remains on course, with the defending champion’s path to the final looking relatively clear. It’s the other half of the draw that looks intriguing, with Novak Djokovic finding some form and Alexander Zverev and Dominic Thiem set to do battle in a potentially epic quarter-final.

In the Women’s event, the tie of the last 16 sees Serena Williams up against Maria Sharapova in a clash of the two biggest names in the women’s game.  Sharapova has only beaten Williams twice in 21 attempts, both back in 2004, but will surely never have a better opportunity to claim a third victory.

31/5/2018 Update – Nadal and Halep Move On Forward

Defending champion and top seed Rafael Nadal eased into the 3rd round at the French Open with a predictably convincing 6-2 6-1 6-1 win over Argentina’s Guido Pella.

British number one Kyle Edmund also progressed through to the 3rd round after a 6-0 1-6 6-2 6-3 victory over Hungary’s Marton Fucsovics.  Edmund will next face Italy’s clay court specialist Fabio Fognini.

In the Women’s event, top seed Simona Halep saw off American Taylor Townsend 6-3 6-1.  The Romanian, twice a beaten finalist in Paris, will now face Germany’s Andrea Petkovic in the next round.  Two-time champion Maria Sharapova beat Croatia’s Donna Vekic 7-5 6-4 and will play Czech sixth seed Karolina Pliskova in the 3rd round.

28/5/2018 Update – Ostapenko Crashes Out in Round One

Women’s defending champion Jelena Ostapenko suffered an early exit at the French Open, with the Latvian fifth seed going down in straight sets to Ukrainian Kateryna Kozlova on day one at Roland Garros.

There were also defeats for seven-time Grand Slam winner Venus Williams and British number one Johanna Konta lost in the first round at Roland Garros for the fourth successive year.

There were no such dramas in the Men’s event, with opening day victories for second seed Alexander Zverev (now 7/1 to win the title with William Hill) for the loss of only four games over unseeded Lithuanian Ricardas Berankis. There were also wins for Grigor Dimitrov, Kei Nishikori and French number one, Lucas Pouille.

Belgium’s David Goffin was given a scare, but the eighth seed from Belgium eventually saw off Dutchman Robin Haase 4-6 4-6 6-4 6-1 6-0.