A retirement ends the match immediately, and the player who didn't retire is awarded the win, so any match winner or outright bet on that player settles as a winner straight away. Markets tied to the score — set betting, game handicaps, total games — are a different story: many operators only settle those once a full set has been completed at the point of retirement, and void the bet entirely if the player retires mid-set. The exact cutoff differs by tournament governing body and by operator, so check Rexbet's own tennis rules for the specific market before you assume how it settles.
A walkover happens before a ball is struck — a player withdraws ahead of the match, often because of injury or illness picked up in an earlier round, so no play takes place at all. Because nothing was contested, walkovers are typically treated differently from retirements: most operators void every bet on that match, including the match winner, rather than settling anything based on a partial score. A retirement, by contrast, happens after play has started, so at least some markets can settle on what was actually played. Check the specific market's rules, since treatment of walkovers still varies by operator.
A match winner bet only asks who wins the match overall, by any scoreline. Set betting asks you to pick the exact set score the match finishes at — 2-0 or 2-1 in a best-of-three match, for example, or any scoreline up to 3-0 in a best-of-five. That means set betting has more possible outcomes than match winner, so a correct pick typically pays more, but it also requires forecasting the shape of the match, not just its result — a straight-sets win and a comeback from a set down both count as different set-betting outcomes even when the same player wins.
A game handicap adds or subtracts a fixed number of games from a player's actual total before the bet is graded, the same idea as a spread in other sports. A handicap of -4.5 games on a favourite, for illustration only, means that player has to win the match by five games or more once the games from every set are added together for the bet to pay; the underdog side of that same line covers if they lose by four games or fewer, or win outright. Books commonly use a half-game line specifically so the bet can't push.
A total games bet counts the combined number of games played across the whole match and asks whether that number finishes over or under a set line, with a tiebreak counted as a single game toward that total regardless of how many points it took to decide. Tiebreak markets are a separate bet entirely — whether a set reaches a tiebreak at all, who wins it, or an odd/even count of points within it — and settling one has no direct effect on how the total games line resolves, beyond the one game the tiebreak itself contributes to the count.
Surface changes how the ball behaves after it bounces, which is what actually changes the tennis. Clay produces a slower, higher bounce that favours longer rallies and lets defensive players track down more shots by sliding into position. Grass produces a low, fast, sometimes unpredictable bounce that rewards serve-and-volley play and shortens points. Hard courts sit between the two, with a more predictable medium-paced bounce, and are the surface most of the tour year is actually played on. A player's results often skew heavily by surface, which is why past results on the same surface matter more than recent form on a different one.
The WTA tour, ATP tour-level events outside the majors, and mixed doubles are played best-of-three sets, decided the moment either player reaches two sets. The men's Grand Slams are played best-of-five, decided at three sets, which roughly doubles how much tennis has to be played to finish a match and changes the physical demands considerably — fitness and recovery matter more, and a two-set deficit is recoverable in a way it isn't in a three-set format. It also changes the odds on set-betting and handicap markets, since a best-of-five match simply has more possible set scorelines than a best-of-three one.
In-play tennis odds reprice continuously as the score changes, and because points, games and sets happen in quick succession, the market can move sharply and often within a single game. A break of serve is usually the single biggest in-play move, since tennis has no possession changes or clock stoppages to soften a shift in momentum the way some other sports do — losing serve immediately changes the win probability for both players. Odds also react to smaller signals within a game, like a player facing break point repeatedly or a service game going to deuce several times in a row.
An outright, or futures, bet is a wager on which player wins the entire tournament, placed before or during the event and settled only once a champion is decided. Every match that player wins along the way keeps the bet alive; a loss at any round before the final eliminates it, regardless of how well that player had performed earlier in the draw. Because the bet doesn't settle until the tournament ends, the price moves throughout the event as players advance or get knocked out, but only the final result — winning the title or not — decides whether the bet pays.
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