Tennis Tips - French Open Men's Final Tips

Alexander Zverev’s moment has arrived – the German is the red hot favourite to take out his first Grand Slam major, when he faces Italian Flavio Cobolli.

Flavio Cobolli vs Alexander Zverev

Best Bet

Under 38.5

Total Games

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$1.76

Value Bet

Alexander Zverev 3-0

Set Betting

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$2.50

On paper, this will be a regulation win for Alexander Zverev, recording his first ever major victory, but his mental demons aren’t on paper, so I’ll avoid taking the game handicaps in this.

Instead, I’m steering towards an unders. The courts have slowed right down the second week of the French Open with the weather cooling down, and both these players have skewed to unders matches in their 2026 clay court years.

Cobolli has played 13 matches on clay this year against top-88 opposition, and 10 of those 13 matches have gone under the total games. As for Zverev, he’s played 13 matches against opposition ranked inside the top-41 on clay this year, and from those matches only four have gone overs.

The Italian has played in very few tiebreaks this tournament, so even if we see four sets the unders is well and truly alive, while in their last two meetings in Munich and Madrid this year, both of these matches went unders with the results split.

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