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This is just scratching the surface, if that.

Just the previous weekend I heard a guy I knew talk about how he was in the stands at a women't ITF tournament match in a middle-sized city here in Romania.

The "stands" is a big word according to him, there were the two players on the field, their respective coaches and a fence-like structure which separated this guy, one of the couple of spectators there, from the match itself. He was telling us how he could bet during the match for "esoteric" things like what player was going to break next and things like that, and that he made a nice chunk of money betting that the match was going to be a succession of break games. He was also telling us how both of the coaches were also on their phones throughout the match, most probably not to instant message or to post on social media.

Online sports betting has ruined sports.



Most ITF players can't afford coaches to travel with them; you really need to play ATF/WTA successfully or have a rich sponsor for that...

(And by "successfully", I mean you have to be top-100 , or at least close to it)


They were probably close family or something similar, which substitutes for coaching for many such players anyway.


Or the "coaches" were self-funding...

Unfortunately, the financial difficulties of being a player outside top-100 invite organized crime involvement like this...


So jam comes, ruin bets?




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