Ilse Marchand — Tennis and golf analyst
Ilse writes the tennis and golf pages and the player profiles: the Slams, the tour finals, the majors and the Ryder Cup. She reads the surface or course, the draw or field, and the rules that decide how a bet settles.
Written by: Ilse Marchand·Checked by: Maren Holt·Updated:
Ilse Marchand covers the two individual sports where the settlement rules surprise people most. A tennis bet can be voided or settled differently when a player retires mid-match, depending on the bookmaker, and a golf each-way bet can be cut in half by a dead heat for the last place. Her pages explain those rules first, then the players.
What Ilse covers
- Tennis. The Slams, the ATP and WTA Finals, and profiles of the players at the top of the markets.
- Golf. The majors, the Ryder Cup and the tour events, with outrights, each way and matchups.
- Surfaces and courses. How clay, grass and hard courts, or a links and a parkland course, change who is favoured.
- Settlement rules. Retirements, walkovers and dead heats.
How Ilse works
For tennis, Ilse starts with the surface and the draw: who a player is likely to meet and on what court. For golf, she starts with the course and the field, then the player's record on similar layouts. She takes results and schedules from the tours and the tournament organisers, and marks entries as confirmed only when they are on the official list. Her picks are labelled as estimates, and her profiles say what a player has done, not what they will do.
Reading Ilse Marchand's picks
Ilse Marchand's tennis picks name the surface and the likely opponents in the next two rounds; her golf picks name the course features that favour a player. Read them with the settlement rules in mind: the retirement rule for tennis, the dead-heat rule for golf. Ilse Marchand never gives a pick on a player whose entry is unconfirmed.
Pages Ilse wrote
Draws, entry lists and tournament dates on Ilse's pages pass through Maren Holt for checking first. Her portrait is an illustration; meet the others on the editorial page.
Why does Ilse write about retirement rules?
What is a dead heat in golf betting?
Are tournament entries confirmed?
Where this comes from
- Pages written by Ilse Marchand, with the events and dates each coversthis site's page records; sources listed on each linked page2026-10-06
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