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Wimbledon is the pinnacle of the tennis season, the third grand slam of the year and the only one still held on grass. 2022 will be the 135th edition of The Championships, which started back in 1877 and will see 128 men and 128 women players compete for their respective titles.

Each singles winner is expected to pick up in the region of £2.35M from a prize pool of around £38M, making this one of the biggest events to win in the sport for both prestige and earnings.

Broadcast each year on the BBC at a time when other sports are in a quiet period it captivates the attention of the public like no other event outside of major football and the Grand National. This means the bookies absolutely love it making it one of the most competitive events on the calendar, which ultimately means better value prices and offers for punters. If you want to bet it is generally best to wait until a couple of days before the event starts to get the best outright deals.

This year the men's game is as competitive as ever, with Djokovic as ever all on good form. The Women's game has never been more open as Serena Williams continues to struggle in her return with a whole host of contenders lining up to take her place.

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St Andrews was supposed to host the 150th Open in 2021 but of course with the 2020 event cancelled it has had to wait a further year to hold the sesquicentennial edition. There is no more fitting place in golf though that could play host to the oldest major's big year as St Andrews is widely regarded as the oldest golf club in the world, dating back to the 15th century. It was also only the second club to host the Open in 1873 and has since hosted a record 29 times previously.

There are a lot of sentimental aspects to St Andrews, such as the names of the holes that date back so long nobody knows who named most of them. The names are descriptive but easy to remember, making them some of the most well known in the world. Such as, 'Long' being the longest hole, 'corner of dyke' being at the corner of a dyke, etc. The course has no single architect, rather it has been crafted by 500 years of golf.

While there may be sentimental aspects golfers cannot afford to let their guard down. The links course is second most northern on the rota and subject to highly changeable conditions. It can be beautifully sunny when one group tees off and then a total downpour by the time the next group tee off.

There are few dominant golfers this year you could bank on winning, but that can also be good as it makes the market more open with better odds for the leading pack. Whatever you bet on it is wise to wait until a few days before the start of the event to get the best prices and deals.

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When we think about elite summer flat racing it is easy to jump straight from Royal Ascot in late June to Goodwood in late July. Sandwiched in the middle, however, is the July Festival, held at the the home of the racing and the Jockey Club; Newmarket.

This three day event from Thursday to Saturday sees 21 races, a third of which are group races. The feature group one races are the Falmouth Stakes on the Friday and the Darley July Cup Stakes on the Saturday. Alongside these are a further 14 handicap and conditions races between 5 furlongs and 1 mile 6 furlongs, that will give plenty of spectacle to racegoers and viewers alike.

With not much other than a bit of tennis going on in early July this meeting is very much loved by the betting companies, and is often used to try to attract summer racing punters - and that means good prices and decent offers are available.

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The annual multi-stage cycling race takes place over 21 days in France (mainly) and will cover a distance of over 2000 miles. Twenty-two teams will ride over the twenty-one stages starting on the 1st July and finishing in Paris at the Champs-Élysées on the 18th July.

2022 will be the 109th edition of the race with the grand depart due to be held in Copenhagen, the first time in history the tour has visited Denmark.

Team Sky, who won six tours in seven years between 2012 and 2019 are now known as Team Ineos following Sky's decision to end their sponsorship. The team was bought by Britain's richest man, Jim Ratcliffe, and won the tour at the first attempt in 2019. However, in a sign that money is no guarantee of winning Ineos was found lacking in 2020 and 2021 with 21 year old Tadej Pogacar winning for Bahrain Victorious, the 2020 version especially being the most unexpected result since WWI.

Tadej Pogacar is a firm favourite for 2022 and Ineos must find a renewed crop of riders with Chris Froome having moved teams and 2018 winner Geraint Thomas and last 2019 winner Egan Bernal struggling for form.

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Generally seen as the biggest PDC darts event after the World Championship, the Matchplay tournament features 32 players (16 seeded and 16 from the ProTour Order of Merit) playing in a straight knock-out legs format over five rounds. The first round is best of 19 legs, second best of 21, quarter-finals best of 31, semi-finals best of 33 and the final best of 35 legs.

Despite the tournament first starting in 1994 there have only been 11 different winners, this is largely due to the fact Phill Taylor won the event 16 times between 1995 and 2017. Peter Wright is the current champion winning in 2021 in an event Michael van Gerwen has struggled in, by his own standards, with only two wins (2015 & 2016) from three final appearances. He was knocked out in the second round in 2020. This may partly be due to the fact half of players are made up from the Pro Tour, meaning top players like van Gerwen have less experience against them.

Being a leading televised PDC event the total prize pool is a very decent £700,000 with £150,000 to the winner.

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