{"id":22623,"date":"2025-09-02T16:12:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/02\/drake-will-bet-300000-on-janik-thinner-to-open-us\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T16:12:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:12:58","slug":"drake-will-bet-300000-on-janik-thinner-to-open-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/02\/drake-will-bet-300000-on-janik-thinner-to-open-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake will bet $300,000 on Janik Thinner to open us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8211; Drake is making a big bet on Janik Thinner, betting $300,000 on the world&#8217;s top-ranked male tennis player to win the 2025 US Open.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper, known for placing big bets on sporting events, posted a screenshot of a betting slip from Tuesday afternoon on social media. If Sinner wins his fifth major championship and second in the US Open, six-figure gambling will pay $507,000.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called &#8220;Drake&#8217;s Curse&#8221; has been blamed on several losses over the past few years, including American Taylor Fritz&#8217;s $210,000 to defeat the sinners at the 2024 US Open Finals. According to a website tracking Drake&#8217;s announced bets and curses, he&#8217;s reduced $115,000 in tennis after cutting his losses by selecting a sinner to win the Australian Open Final in January.<\/p>\n<p>Thinner is in the quarterfinals after routing Alexander Babrik in his fourth match. The 24-year-old neighbour faces Italy&#8217;s Lorenzo Musetti and is a favourite of -2000 people at ESPN BET.<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN BET, Sinner is -130 to defend his title in Flushing Meadows and a second Carlos Alcaraz +145. The two have combined to win the past seven men&#8217;s major championships.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8211; Drake is making a big bet on Janik Thinner, betting $300,000 on the world&#8217;s top-ranked male tennis player to win the 2025 US Open. The rapper, known for placing big bets on sporting events, posted a screenshot of a betting slip from Tuesday afternoon on social media. If Sinner wins his fifth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[431,6106,28,32,24,1959],"class_list":{"0":"post-22623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-bet","9":"tag-drake","10":"tag-janik","11":"tag-open","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-thinner"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}