Morning Coffee: All Eyes On Serena Entering US Open

The 142nd edition of the US Open gets underway this morning on TSN.

All eyes will be on Serena Williams entering what is expected to be the final tournament of her career.

The 23-time major champion is set to run it back one last time at Flushing Meadows.

While she has won the US Open six times, Williams enters her final Grand Slam having lost five of her last six matches, creating an interesting contrast in how she is being viewed among sports bettors.

As per the traders at FanDuel Canada, Williams has received the second-most stakes in the US Open winner market behind only Iga Swiatek, who is the tournament favourite.

Despite being the second-most popular play, Williams is +4800 to win the US Open title at FanDuel this morning.

While bettors are willing to take a chance on Williams to go out on top with one final major championship victory, she remains outside of the top-22 choices to win the title at FanDuel heading into her first-round match.

Here’s the Morning Coffee for Monday August 29th, 2022.  

There’s no doubt that there is a large contingent of tennis fans and bettors that would like to see the greatest to ever do it go out on top.

You can count me among them.