Betting On Nadal And Djokovic 2021 Grand Slam Tournament Wins

• Rafael Nadal is -220 to win one Grand Slam tournament in 2021.
• Nadal has famously dominated the French Open, winning 13 of the last 16 iterations of the tournament.
• Novak Djokovic has -105 odds to win two or more majors in 2021.

LAS VEGAS – Tennis in 2021 is just around the corner, which means it's time for the sportsbooks to offer props on the best tennis players in the world.

Right now, that’s Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, widely regarded - as they have been for the last decade - as two of the best to ever play.

Both Nadal and Djokovic have solid prop betting opportunities available on the online sportsbooks, and they might be informative as to how well the two will perform in the upcoming year.

Every year, tennis fans and bettors wait and see whether this is finally the year that the big three will fall. It hasn’t happened yet, but let’s take a look at the odds for Nadal and Djokovic.

Rafael Nadal Betting

Nadal is coming off of yet another spectacular season, and the sportsbooks think that he’s likely to continue this trend.

Nadal is -222 to win one Grand Slam in 2021, meaning that the sportsbooks are pretty convinced that he will win at least one.

To win two, he is +300 - it’s tough to win two Grand Slams, even if you’re Rafael Nadal. Nadal has won 20 Grand Slams over the course of his career, which has lasted more than 15 years.

In other words, on average, he wins more than one Slam per year.

The big reason for this is the French Open, which is held on clay. Nadal is a dominant performer on clay.

He has won the last four French Opens, and thirteen of the last 16 French Opens.

Basically, the -222 odds come from the fact that, barring injury, Nadal will be a runaway favorite to win the French Open this year as well.

Novak Djokovic Betting

Novak Djokovic, meanwhile, does not have any one specialty court that practically guarantees him a slam win, but is the most dominant player in the sport.

Djokovic has won three of the last seven Grand Slams, and one of the ones he lost, the 2020 US Open, involved a controversial DQ elimination for the best player in the world.

Djokovic is a heavy favorite to win one Grand Slam, and barring catastrophe, will likely do so.

He even managed to win a Grand Slam in a year that saw him DQ’d from one and saw another one canceled due to COVID.

Djokovic is a machine. The real question is whether or not he will win two or more, and which two those will be.

The sportsbooks specifically highlighted the Australian and US Opens as possible for Djokovic, avoiding Nadal’s turf at the French Open.

Djokovic is very slightly favored to win two or more Slams in 2021, and that seems like a fair wager.

He won two Slams in 2019, the last year in which all four major tournaments actually occurred, and this isn’t necessarily a bad bet, despite how high the standards are.

Djokovic is known for meeting high expectations when it comes to tennis betting, and he will look to do so again this season.