Tennis + Gambling = A Looming Double Fault?
By Jordan R. Bass and Ryan M. Rodenberg
Anyone who wagered that gambling issues in professional tennis would subside following the enactment of more stringent anti-corruption measures on Jan. 1, 2009, has lost…big.
A federal lawsuit filed by five professional tennis players from Italy challenging their gambling-related suspensions enforced by the ATP World Tour, the governing body of men’s tennis globally, has morphed into a multi-pronged dispute with allegations of a cover-up.