Prop Bets: Belinda Bencic VS Alycia Parks 2025-07-01

Wimbledon 2025: Belinda Bencic vs. Alycia Parks – A Grass-Courting Comedy of Errors

Ladies and gentlemen, prepare for a match that’s less The Crown and more The Office as Belinda Bencic (1.36) takes on Alycia Parks (3.1) in a first-round clash that experts agree is as one-sided as a tennis ball’s trajectory. The odds? Bencic is a near-70% favorite to win, per DraftKings, while Parks’ chances hover around 29%. If you’re betting on drama, you’ll need to look elsewhere—this is shaping up to be a Swiss cheese triumph (sorry, Bencic’s from Switzerland, but we had to).

Key Stats to Know:
- Bencic’s Grass Resume: 14-8 at Wimbledon, with three fourth-round finishes. She’s basically the Elon Musk of grass courts—reliable, if a bit injury-prone.
- Parks’ Recent Form: Lost in the first round of the Birmingham Challenger and last year’s Wimbledon. Her grass-court résumé is… under construction.
- Head-to-Head: Bencic leads 1-0, having outlasted Parks in a three-set Canadian Open thriller in 2023. Parks has since tried to delete that match from her browser history.

Props & Spreads:
- Moneyline: Bencic (-300) vs. Parks (+230).
- Spreads: Bencic is -3.5 games favorite (odds: 1.83–1.95), meaning Parks needs to play and serve like a robot to cover.
- Total Games: 21.5 (Over/Under). Bet the under if you believe Bencic’s “healthy grass record” will turn this into a surgical procedure.

Why Bencic Will Win:
Because Parks keeps looking for her grass shoes, and Bencic’s already polished hers since January. The Swiss veteran, despite a delayed grass-court start due to injury, has the experience of a player who’s made the fourth round of Wimbledon more times than Parks has won a set on this surface. Plus, Bencic’s late start (8 PM Swiss time) is just her testing the patience of the crowd—she’s used to Swiss clocks being… Swiss.

Prediction: Bencic in three sets, 6-4, 6-3. Parks will win a set, but only after Bencic accidentally double-faults into a hedge maze.

Final Verdict: This isn’t a pick; it’s a public service announcement. Back Bencic, eat your Wheaties, and hope Parks brings a ladder to fix the net after this one.

Implied probabilities via odds: Bencic ~70%, Parks ~30%. The spread says Bencic wins by 3.5 games—basically a guarantee, unless Parks invents a new tennis stroke called “the Google.”

Created: July 1, 2025, 10:03 a.m. GMT