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GUIDO PELLA AND THE TENNIS MAFIAS: “THERE WERE SIX PEOPLE IN MY PARTY AND THEY WERE BETTING”

GUIDO PELLA starred in a very strange case last week. He played the first round of the ATP 250 in Moscow, in Russia, and after losing the first set 6-2 to his Spanish friend Pedro Martínez he retired.

As if that were not enough, he not only left the party but also left the tour: he returned to Buenos Aires instead of continuing to play in Saint Petersburg. There was talk of injury, due to an annoyance that the Bahianse dragged in the knee, but the reason went further: the gambling mafia.

“It was a very strange situation. We know the environment and the circuit like the back of our hand. We know when strange things happen and when they are situations that one does not experience every day. I arrived at the tournament with a knee injury; ten years and when I saw this situation of the match and I tried to talk to the authorities and the chair umpire, because in general I have a good relationship with everyone, the referee ignored me and told me that I could not say anything if the people want me to win the rival”, narrated Pella in C5N.

And he continued with the story: “The Spaniard is a friend of mine and the two of us, in the change of sides, agreed that the six people who shouted for him and against me were gamblers. It is very rare that they let people who are gambling pass. What happens here is the famous double bar, the double standard. I told the judge on 1 equals: “These people are betting against me and you have a duty to get them off the court.” They were clapping wildly. They had no idea about tennis. because when they know they hide it “.

The biggest problem for Pella was, in a nutshell, that no one acted as they should in a situation that clearly exposed it: “The referee told me that he was not seeing anything strange and that he could not do anything if their favorite player was the other. When I spoke with the supervisor he agreed with me: he discredited the chair umpire but they did not remove anyone. I was playing a tennis match with this situation which is unpleasant for everyone, for me, for the opponent and for the four spectators who were enjoying the game selflessly. Nobody did anything and everything got more and more uncomfortable. “

And, on the epilogue of the note, he reflected: “Between the fact that I had a bad knee, I am 31 years old and I already have a long enough journey, I thought: ‘How many more of these situations am I going to smoke?’ Much more in a place like Russia, which is an unknown terrain in which one is unprotected. It was an unpleasant situation and it is not the only time it happened. “

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