Quebec City: Stefanos Sakellaridis vs Karl Poling

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Market context

Stefanos Sakellaridis’ qualifying match against Karl Poling in Québec City sits inside a draw where the Greek player is the higher-ranked entrant and was listed as the clear pre-match favourite. Sakellaridis was around ATP 155-157 in the available listings, while Poling was around ATP 482-491, which is the sort of ranking gap that usually justifies a one-sided price before any point is played. The 100% crowd-implied YES looks less like a balanced opinion and more like a late-stage assumption that the scheduled first-round qualifier either went ahead or was effectively treated as decided in the market.

For comparable markets, the key read-through is that qualifying-round tennis often resolves quickly once the official order of play, court assignment, and live feed confirm a ball has been struck. If the match is not started, starts and is then abandoned, or gets pushed far enough beyond the original date, settlement can flip away from a simple winner-pick and into the market’s fallback logic. That makes this kind of contract best approached as an event-status check, not just a player-vs-player model.

The practical catalysts are straightforward: official scheduling updates, any withdrawal or walkover notice, and whether the match appears on the day’s order of play at the listed court and time. Québec’s qualifying programme was set up with daytime sessions starting at 11:00 and no evening qualifying on 17 August, with 18 August carrying qualifying and first-round slots, so traders using bots or conditional orders would typically key off draw updates, live scoring activation, and tournament posting changes rather than raw price alone.

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Methodology

We track Quebec City: Stefanos Sakellaridis vs Karl Poling across the five venues with material prediction-market liquidity. The probability shown is the live Polymarket mid; the comparison rows summarise how each venue treats the underlying contract — fees, KYC thresholds, settlement currency, deposit options. The highlighted row marks the cheapest route into Polymarket's order book.

Resolution & payout

At resolution the UMA oracle takes over: a proposer posts the outcome with a bond, any token holder can dispute within two hours. Without dispute the result is accepted and the smart contract distributes USDC instantly.

On Kalshi (CFTC-regulated) resolution runs through their in-house clearing engine in USD. Betfair Exchange settles after match end in the account's local currency. Manifold pays no cash — only its in-platform "mana" currency.

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