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Beating The Book with Gill Alexander

Beating The Book: 2026 Australian Open Tennis Betting Preview

Beating The Book with Gill Alexander

VSiN

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.7535 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Gill Alexander is joined by Drew Dinsick (Analyst for NBC Sports Edge, Deep Dive Podcast) and Zach Cohen (VSiN Senior Editor) to preview the Australian Open from all betting angles! They react to the draw, offer betting strategies, analysis, and picks for the first major in 2026.

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0:00.0

Check it out, man.

0:06.0

This is the good stuff.

0:07.4

The Australian Open podcast preview on the beating the book podcast feed, Gil Alexander.

0:13.3

This gets more exciting than even football does, I think, at this point.

0:17.9

For those of us who are into tennis as we are, tennis hardos as Drew Dinsick once called them. The Australian Open, we do all four slams and we do Indian Wells. We give a nod to the fifth slam, if you will. My guest is always for these podcasts. That man laughing right there. Drew Dinsick, he is the co-hosts of Not One But Two podcasts, The Deep Dive with Andy Molitor. And of course, NBC Sports Bet the Edge, which he does with Jay Croucher. And the tennis Hardo. He and Andy started that tennis chat years ago, if I'm not mistaken, as well. Is that true? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Good morning, good Friday morning, Melbourne time. That's right. Melbourne, that's Melbourne, by the way Friday morning, Melbourne time.

0:54.9

That's right.

0:56.2

That's Melbourne, by the way. Melbourne, Melbourne time.

0:58.3

By the way, it feels like Melbourne here.

1:00.6

It is like 80 degrees and beautiful, beautiful weather here.

1:05.0

I played tennis today in Vegas.

1:06.5

It's gorgeous.

1:07.5

Oh, man.

1:08.2

What a gift.

1:09.8

What a gift.

1:10.9

Oh, yeah. Well, sorry to the rest of the nation, I guess. I'm getting to say that. And then Zach Cohen, who not only does everything at vSin, vSin.com and multiple sports, but he also, and he'll have to update me on all the other tennis stuff he does, but he works. He does tennis channel stuff, tennis.com. Tell me all the stuff you do, Zach Cohen, everybody. Yeah, I mean, cedar at Eruddin.com, so a lot of stuff for Veson with Gil, but a little bit of stuff with tennis channel as well. Not as much as usual. We're not doing the tennis bet show anymore, but still doing some appearances on second serve and still doing some stuff for them video-wise as well. okay, can we talk about that for a second? So the tennis channel leaned into gambling and then they decided, eh, maybe not so much? I think so. I think that's what happened. I mean, there's just new leadership there in general, so just things have changed a lot. I also think, like, the tennis establishment, I get why they're kind of anti-gambling because the worst bettors in the world

2:02.5

seem to be tennis better. When I was just harassing players. Yeah, you're right, right?

2:07.1

Yeah, that's true. Player, yeah, player harassment is a huge problem. Also, they were probably

2:11.6

like expecting some sort of big affiliate parachute and the affiliate money is evaporated.

2:16.6

Probably true. That's right. Not great timing on that count. All right. Before we do anything, men's, women's, uh, from a tournament long perspective and then I don't know if drew if you had a chance to look at first round matches because there are some bangers on the men's side. Zach and I was talking about. But I'm just curious because I, I brought this up on, on a numbers game on the men's side, Jack, and I was talking about. But I'm just curious because I brought this up on a numbers game on the radio side,

2:38.4

a couple just random things about this that I thought were noteworthy.

2:41.7

One, and this is just me being curious.

2:43.5

One, did you see the Sebastian Offner bash of a ready qualifying thing?

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