I haven't read that much crap in a long time. Put up a run of lost matches
over a time of 5 year and say - Oh i see suspicious matches and
"the guys i talk to" agreed. Obviously the writer haven't talk to Roger Federer who
defended Davydenko and said Nikolay haven't done anything wrong in his eyes.

The writer even forgot to mention that ATP had to withdraw a punishment imposed
on Davydenko last summer at a turnament when he made a couple of double fault
and the umpire "got suspicious".
At the end there have been not one hard evidence on wrongdoing from
Davydenko's part, only rumours and i would say paranoia.

I agree, although I wouldn't call it "crap" - it's just one person's opinion.

There is nothing suspicious about losing to Gilles Simon in three sets or getting destroyed by Paradorn in the first set and then retiring or losing to Evgeny Korolev in a close battle. The only match that I have seen proven to have suspicious activity going on is the Vassallo-Arguello match for that he is innocent until proven guilty. Obviously SOMEONE is guilty, but judgment should be withheld until the facts are uncovered.

For now, tennis fans MUST appreciate the world class display Davydenko put on in Miami. What he does on the court and off must be looked at separately.

Guillermo Canas was once suspended for doping - now he is loved by almost everyone (including me). Why? Because he is likable and charismatic. Davydenko is none of those things - that's the main reason why people want to keep dogging him for something which he has not yet been proven guilty for. It's painfully obvious that f some charismatic player like Nadal or Djoker or Safin was in this same situation, he would be given the benefit of the doubt until the facts came out.

Yes, you have Fidde Rosengren the coach of Mario Ancic who accused Djokovic
for not doing his best in the second round of Marseilles ATP-turnament against
Gilles Simon this year, where he lost.
Not surprisingly i haven't heared anything more about that case, but of course
Novak does good at the boxoffice, so as you said he have the benefit of the doubt.

lendl - I hardly know where to start. You better check on your facts. The ATP withdrew punishment on Davydenko for the match he lost to Cilic in St. Petersburg last fall, not last summer. That match was not even offered on the betting exchange as this was after they stopped offering Davydenko's matches. Therefore, there was no big money to gain from fixing and the withdrawal was a good decision. I have a lot of respect for Federer, but how would he be able to know anything about what happened in Sopot? Ask anyone who has any kind of insight in the betting world and they will say that the match was a fixed affair. Have you watched the match and do you know how the odds moved during that match? Just from watching it you will notice a lot of odd things... It will always be extremely difficult to prove anything, as you would have to find the connection between those guys winning ridiculous amounts of money and Davydenko. But the money traded during that match at those prices are enough evidence for most of us, combined with the fact that a few Russian account holders placed huge bets at odds that were 50 % below normal odds at specific moments during the match.

Ricky - Is losing a match on purpose something which is done off court? We must be living in different worlds. You don't find anything suspicious with that huge amounts of money were placed on Sargsian before his encounter against good friend Davydenko, and then Davydenko wins the first set easily to just retire? Also, you don't find it suspicious that Davydenko doesn't even want to have treatment from the trainer before retiring to Moodie being a set up and a level score in the second set, with huge amounts of money being placed on Moodie just before that happened? You find these things normal?

I agree with Mr Chip and Charge on this.....the facts definately suggest some very strange and suspicious things going on in those matches....in particular the ones in bold are weird scorelines and they all occurred in the first round of very small tournaments which get little media coverage....rarely live internet streaming/local tv coverage and until the past couple of years, probably no live scoring....its an ideal environment for potential match-fixing...difficult to prove anything and probably a handy amount of cash given the difficulty Davydenko has had finding sponsors until recent years

a huge amount of gambling (and probably match-fixing) goes on at challenger level....particularly in eastern european tournaments like wroclaw and bratislava which are covered by big betting sites like Tipex. if you ever read menstennisforums - the challenger threads are dominated by gamblers sharing tips on who to bet on....quite often you will find "inside posts" telling you that "such and such" will tank a certain match......

however...i dont think we should let this issue continue to cast a shadow over Davydenko's forthcoming achievements on tour....many players like Canas, Coria, Chela etc have commited far more serious offences (ie doping) and been welcomed back onto the tour....nothing will ever be proven in the Sopot case so let the guy start again with a clean sheet

MrChipandCharge - I'm not impressed, where is the facts here.
In your last comment you even added more rumours and speculations, what is this.
Here we have an anonymous person accusing the No. 4 player in the World for
matchfixing and yet i have not seen one single hard evidence to back it up.
This is just weird!!

Now MrChipandCharge can you put up one real evidence on the table or is it
just talk you heard from unauthorized betting?
You said you talk to some people in the betting industry, then show us some stats
of betting on each player and odds of that famous Davydenko - Vassallo Arguello
match in Sopot, i'm not talking about some unauthorized betting with Russian account during the match, that would be interesting, can you do that?

lendl - I have never talked about unauthorized betting. I am just mentioning the wagers that people placed on the betting exchange, Betfair. If you don't know how a betting exchange works, this is going to be difficult for you to understand. Anyway, one hour before the match started Davydenko's odds moved up rapidly. More over, after winning the first set, Davydenko became an underdog to win the match (!), when he should have been an overwhelming favorite. Let me mention some of the bets that were placed on Betfair. Just before the match, a Russian user placed a wager of 541 000 USD on Vassallo-Arguello. 15 minutes into the match, with Davydenko up a break, the same user placed another bet on Vassallo-Arguello at odds of 1/7! 24 minutes into the second set, another Russian user placed a bet of 368 000 USD on Vassallo-Arguello at odds 1/5 despite that Davydenko was up a set! If you know anything about odds, you will understand that this would appear as complete madness, if of course, they didn't know that Vassallo would win with a 100 % certainty. It is quite apparent that both these guys, as well as a few others, were 100 % sure that Davydenko would lose. You can draw your own conclusions on how they could be so sure about it. I would be a much happier person if I knew that this match wasn't fixed, but unfortunately absolutely everything points in the opposite direction. Maybe watching the match combined with knowledge of the odds requested at different times in the match would make you think differently?

maybe you're right MrChipandCharge,maybe davydenko is really guilty of match fixing or something.but i would still agree with RickyDimon.If Davydenko's personality would be different or if it would happen to another player (someone with a high rating like novak),people's attitudes would be different.unfortunately,that's how life is in general.

of course those don't seem normal to me. They shouldn't seem normal to anyone. That argument has nothing to do with what I'm talking about it, so I'm not going to respond to it further.

My point - as stated - was that people like Djoker and Nadal and Canas, etc., would be considered innocent until proven guilty if they were in Davy's shoes. I find it borderline impossible for anyone to disagree with that. My argument has nothing to do with whether or not Davydenko is actually guilty.