Caroline Garcia, the former world number 4 tennis player, retired from the circuit, refused the sum of 230,000 euros from an online betting site to finance her podcast Tennis Insider Club. The reasons? “Over the past two years, while interviewing players, coaches, agents and parents, one theme has come up again and again: betting is one of the main sources of pressure, abuse and hatred in modern sport. »
We can no longer count the scandals that have punctuated professional tennis where players have been insulted via social networks. Worse still, in smaller tournaments, even amateur ones, some have failed by fixing their match. In short, they agreed to lose in order to receive a small percentage. These people are now banned from the world of tennis.
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