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The online casino gambling industry media – and the media in general for that
matter have really honed in on the corruption issues that are facing the tennis
industry, and some tennis pros are taking the fall. Four of the world’s top
tennis professionals have admitted that they did place small wagers of betting
matches but they claim that the reaction and consequences laid out my the
Association of Tennis Professionals (APT) is over the top and much stronger than
the situation actually calls for. The tennis industry has made headlines over
the past several months with corruption suspicions at the online casino betting
sites and the APT also came down pretty severely on another tennis pro who
admitted to gambling several years ago on small matches, none of which were his
own.
The four tennis pros in question, Daniele Bracciali, Giorgio Galimberti, Alessio
Di Mauro, Potito Starace, are all protesting the ATP’s recent ruling on the
situation. All four Italian men have been suspended from the sport for their
involvement in land and online casino betting. The four men though are
protesting the ruling and blaming the media for their harsh sentences. Right now
the media spotlight has centred on the possible corruption in tennis and the
four pros claim that the ATP has designed the four players as scapegoats for the
media and the fans.
Past precedence on rulings form the ATP have never before given such long
suspensions and harsh rulings and the four men in question are demanding that
the ATP reconsider their sentences. In 2007 Davydenko and Arguello match
generated a lot of publicity but the ATP ruled that there was no corruption in
the case and dropped the charges. There was much more money involved in the 2007
case and the men claim that they are being treated unfairly by the Association
merely because of the tensions that have arisen in the past two months about
corruption within the game of tennis, not because they actually did anything
wrong. |