Famed Italian tennis players Potito Starace and Daniele Bracciali were rightly suspended and fined by the ATP for betting on tennis games (though not theirs or they would have probably experienced Joan of Arc's fate.)
Potito Starace, 31st in the ATP ranking, was suspended six weeks and fined $30,000 for making five bets for the stratospheric total of 130$ two years ago.
Daniele Bracciali, ranked 258th, was banned for 3 months and fined $20,000 for 50 bets of $7 each.
Whaoooo!!! Big fish has been caught. Coming on the heels of the Australian Open decisionto create a hot line for reporting suspicions of match fixing, it is a clear message that the ATP means business.
To those who might find the sentences a bit stiff, let us stress a couple of points :
-first the ATP's financial mercy towards Daniele Bracciali who is only fined $20,000 rather than $30,000 like better ranked Starace : the 258th tennis player in the world might have had a harder time coughing up $30,000 than McLaren its fabled $100 million fine,
-two, let us not forget these two guys are Italians... See what I mean ?
(P.M.)
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