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  • Madrid Masters on guard for notorious punters around the grounds

    10/11/08 10:14 AM | Johan Lindahl
    Madrid Masters on guard for notorious punters around the grounds The ATP has issued a hot-list of 15 gamblers which the sanctioning body wants banned from the premises as the Madrid Masters gets underway on Sunday. Specifics of the list were not made public, but reports indicate that tournament organisers will be on the lookout for the notorious punters.

    Madrid tournament director Gerard Tsobanian told Bloomberg that the list of gamblers is very international.

    The crackdown comes in the wake of an exoneration of Nikolay Davydenko after 14 months of investigation failed to turn up any evidence that the Russian world number five had been part of any corruption in a suspicious loss in Poland in summer, 2007.

    Meanwhile, the ATP is struggling for traction with controversial boss Etienne de Villiers forced out by player pressure and set to end his mandate early at the end of the year.

    Tournaments have been on guard for online betting on site, which can yield a time advantage of several seconds in person before scores of matches reach website computer scoring systems.

    The lag makes it possible to bet in real time on points just completed. Madrid is expected to have several undercover officials roaming the precincts to look for any computer betting form the public. Laptops are banned from courtside at ATP and WTA events.

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