US Open, Qualification ATP: Coleman Wong vs Elmer Moeller

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Market context

Coleman Wong and Elmer Møller are in the first round of US Open men’s qualifying, with the draw listing Wong as the higher seed and the match scheduled for 24 August on Court 5. The market’s 100% crowd-implied probability is therefore reading as a strong expectation that the fixture has been played or is effectively locked in, rather than a balanced view of the tennis itself.

For framing, this is the sort of market that often trades on schedule certainty more than head-to-head conviction. Wong was listed around ATP No. 93 and Møller around No. 172, with no prior meeting in the draw notes, so a programme that auto-tracks pre-match status would usually model this as a one-way event unless there is a late retirement, rain delay, or a feed update showing no completion. In comparable qualifying matches, the main risk is not upset probability but settlement ambiguity: a match starting late, being suspended, or being moved within the session can matter more than the rankings gap.

The practical catalysts are official order-of-play changes, live score feeds, and any withdrawal or walkover notice from the US Open site or schedule pages. The tournament schedule has qualifying running across 24–27 August, and the match was still shown on scoreboards and draw documents on 24 August, which points to an active event rather than a voided one. For conditional orders or bot logic, the key checks are whether the match starts, whether it reaches a completed result, and whether any official update triggers the 50-50 fallback window before 7 September.

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Methodology

We track US Open, Qualification ATP: Coleman Wong vs Elmer Moeller 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

Settlement runs on-chain. Polymarket's contract logic separates YES and NO shares as conditional tokens; at resolution the winning share lifts to $1.00 and the losing one to $0. The outcome input comes from the UMA Optimistic Oracle, which secures against bad resolution with a bond + dispute window.

Once finalised, the smart contract pays USDC to the holders' wallets within minutes — no withdrawal fees beyond Polygon network gas. Kalshi settles in USD via CFTC clearance, Betfair in account currency net of commission, Manifold in play-money mana with no cash-out.

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