Winston-Salem Open: Hugo Grenier vs Sebastian Baez

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Market context

Hugo Grenier’s match against Sebastián Báez at the Winston-Salem Open is a round-of-32 meeting originally listed for 25 August, with official schedules showing the order of play can shift and the event itself still framed as tentative until courts are assigned and play starts.[3][6] The market’s 31% YES price sits well below the pre-match projection published by tennis data outlets, which had Báez around an 81% projected winner and Grenier near 19%, so the current crowd view is broadly consistent with a sizeable underdog position for Grenier.[11]

For comparable reading, Grenier arrived as a lucky loser and had already advanced through earlier rounds, while Báez is the higher-ranked seed, which usually compresses upset probability unless there is late withdrawal, retirement, or scheduling disruption.[3][15] That matters for settlement because if the match is not completed and no winner is formally determined by the market deadline, the contract can still flip to 50-50 rather than resolve on partial play, so live scorelines alone are not enough.

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