{"id":738479,"date":"2026-07-02T07:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T07:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/738479\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T07:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T07:34:14","slug":"wimbledon-picks-tennis-best-bets-for-thursday-july-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/738479\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon Picks: Tennis best bets for Thursday, July 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2026 edition of Wimbledon is officially underway at the All England Club in London. We\u2019ve broken down the day\u2019s best tennis betting picks, digging into matchup tactics, surface tendencies, and current form to find the sharpest edges on the board. Whether you\u2019re betting the moneyline, game spread, set spread, or total, our 2026 Wimbledon best bets are designed to help you profit. I\u2019m dropping some of my favorite plays for Thursday, July 2 below, but make sure you also monitor the\u00a0picks page<\/a>. I usually have a few more picks over there, plus I occasionally add plays based on the way lines are moving. That\u2019s also where Gill Alexander posts his bets.<\/p>\n

Jacob Fearnley vs. Jaume Munar<\/p>\n

These odds were a little surprising to me. Munar is coming off a dominant win over Francisco Cerundolo, who just won a title at Queen\u2019s Club. That said, perhaps people viewed that as some sort of super-impressive victory for the Spaniard. However, Cerundolo has never played well at Wimbledon, and the jury is still out on whether he\u2019s a good grass-court player. That said, I wasn\u2019t too moved by the Munar win. <\/p>\n

Munar is just 8-13 since the start of the 2026 season, so this hasn\u2019t exactly been his year. He\u2019s also just 6-17 in main-draw matches on grass in his career. <\/p>\n

This just isn\u2019t the type of player that should be a massive favorite over Fearnley, who is comfortable on grass, has a solid all-court game, and will have the fans in his corner. <\/p>\n

Bet: Fearnley ML (+135) <\/p>\n

MORE: I have WAY more picks for this Wimbledon slate. VSiN Pro subscribers can check them out here!<\/a><\/p>\n

Anna Blinkova vs. Marta Kostyuk<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going super small with this play, but I like Blinkova to make Kostyuk work for her spot in the third round. While Kostyuk is coming off a run to the semifinals at Roland Garros, she has played only one grass-court match this year \u2014\u00a0and that was her opening-round match here. The Ukrainian is also just 10-15 on grass at the WTA level in her career. Meanwhile, Blinkova is 6-3 on grass this season. She\u2019s a tricky opponent on this surface, where her aggressive, powerful game can rush opponents into mistakes. <\/p>\n

The grass-court bump for Blinkova is very real. After losing to Yulia Starodubtseva 6-3, 6-1 at the French Open, she beat her 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-1 in the first round of this tournament. She\u2019s very confident when playing on this surface, so let\u2019s see if she can push Kostyuk. <\/p>\n

Bet: Blinkova +1.5 Sets (+165 \u2013 0.75 units) & Blinkova ML (+580 \u2013 0.25 units) <\/p>\n

Viktorija Golubic vs. Jasmine Paolini<\/p>\n

Paolini hasn\u2019t won back-to-back matches since March, so I\u2019ll take another stab at fading her after her win over Robin Montgomery in Round 1. The reality is that Paolini is barely playing .500 tennis this season, and she hasn\u2019t looked like the player she was a few years ago. <\/p>\n

Golubic also happens to be a good grass-court player. In nearly 50 career matches on this surface, Golubic has a winning record. Her playing style should also get to an out-of-form Paolini. Golubic covers the court well, she mixes up her shots, and she has a great feel for how to adjust during matches. <\/p>\n

This is also a match in which there\u2019s lopsided public action on Paolini, according to our VSiN betting splits<\/a>. Let\u2019s align ourselves with the oddsmakers and hope for the best. <\/p>\n

Bet: Golubic ML (+139)<\/p>\n

2026 W-L Record: 898-1031 (+11.42 units)<\/p>\n

Tennis Links\u00a0<\/p>\n

VSiN Tennis Betting Splits<\/a><\/p>\n

Tennis Odds<\/a><\/p>\n

Gill Alexander\u2019s Beating The Book Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 edition of Wimbledon is officially underway at the All England Club in London. We\u2019ve broken down…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[430,831,99,428,26012,654],"class_list":["post-738479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-atp","tag-featured","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-bets","tag-wta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}