Advantage Raducanu 500/1 to 3/1 - Tennis Ace odds of Winning SPOTY Smashed by Bookmakers

Semi Final

British Tennis ace, Emma Raducanu has won three titles on the ITF circuit but has never been in as lofty a position as a Grand Slam final before. 

Well, that has just become a reality after winning her US Open Quarter-final match against Swiss Belinda Bencic in the Quarter Final

Betting sites have reacted by slashing the price of her winning Sports Personality of the Year into 3/1 second favourite behind Tom Daley

Sports Personality of The Year Betting Odds

**Probability percentage figures include bookmakers overround - odds correct at 9/9/2021

The 18-year-old was not even in the SPOTY betting before she stormed into the quarter final to face Bencic. At that point, Bookmakers made her a 16/1 chance to win the annual award. Fast forward post-victory and semi-final spot and she is now just a fraction of that price at 3/1

4/1 to be US Open Champion

Betting on the next matches for the young Brit is available and she is currently 5/4 and given a 45% chance of progressing to the final, past the Greek player Maria Sakkari who is ranked 17 in the world, some 133 ranking places higher than Raducanu.

Should she win the match which takes place at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, she will face either Portuguese No2 ranked Aryna Sabalenka or 66 ranked Canadian Leylah Annie Fernandez who compete in the other Semi-Final at 1am on Friday.

Future Grand Slam Betting

We can be sure bookmakers will react to any result and provide some betting odds for Raducanu to feature in the 2022 Grand Slam betting, but at the time of writing, she has no odds quoted.

• Australian Open 2022 - 33/1 > 16/1
• French Open 2022 - 33/1 > 25/1
• Wimbledon 2022 - 33/1 > 16/1

Jo Durie & Virginia Wade

The Quarter Final feat means Raducanu is the first British woman to reach a US open semi final since Jo Durie in 1983 and the first British Woman to reach a Grand Slam semi-final in 46 years.

Make no mistake if she was to succeed in the semi-final, she would be the first since Virginia Wade who won Wimbledon in 1977 to reach a Final and would instantly become favourite for the annual sports award that Wade won the same year.

Tennis Players at Sports Personality of the Year

The BBC has always been proud of its Tennis coverage and in particular, Wimbledon and whilst Britain may not have strength in depth in the professional tennis world, those that succeed do not go unnoticed in the awards show.

Andy Murray is a three times SPOTY winner in 2013, 2015 and 2016 and Emma Raducanu's performance in the US will certainly have qualified a chance of "Sportsperson whose actions have most captured the public's imagination'

Tennis Players in Sports Personality of the Year

Women SPOTY Winners

Emma Raducanu has a chance of breaking the male stronghold on the yearly awards show.

Since Zara Phillips won the Sports Personality of the year award in 2006, no woman has won, and only 7 women have filled the possible 42 finishing positions

Record of Women Sports Stars at Sports Personality of the Year since 2007

OH! And the money

Emma Raducanu's rise is nothing short of meteoric and is certainly in the sphere of catching the public's imagination as per the qualification for a sports personality winner.

Ranked 150 in the world and having never appeared at a major championship before the beginning of June this year, the 18yo has already guaranteed herself $675,000 for becoming a US Open Semi-Finalist.

Further success will only improve upon that, but she has more than covered the air tickets that have gone to waste after exceeding her own expectations and not returning on her expected schedule.

Womens US Open Prize Money

• Champion: $2,500,000
• Runner-up: $1,250,000
• Semifinalist: $675,000
• Quarterfinalist: $425,000
• Round of 16: $265,000
• Round of 32: $180,000
• Round of 64: $115,000
• Round of 128: $75,000