Does Pinnacle price tennis underdogs efficiently enough to use as an EV benchmark?
I’m looking into tennis betting models and wanted opinions from people who have worked with Pinnacle closing/opening prices.
For favorites, Pinnacle is usually treated as one of the sharpest reference markets. But I’m less sure about underdogs in tennis, especially lower-liquidity matches, smaller tours, qualifiers, Challenger/ITF, retirements risk, injury/news lag, and matchups where public bias may push favorite prices.
My question is:
Can Pinnacle underdog prices be trusted as a reliable “true probability” baseline for finding EV elsewhere, or do tennis underdogs need extra adjustment before using Pinnacle as the reference?
For example, if Pinnacle implies an underdog is 35% after removing vig, and another book offers odds implying 31%, is that usually enough to treat it as +EV, or are there known distortions in tennis underdog pricing that make this unsafe?
Interested in any experience with closing line value, underdog calibration, sport-specific bias, or differences between ATP/WTA/Challenger markets.