Match Fixing? What Match Fixing?

I don't get this: Match Fixing Hits Keep Coming (from Off the Baseline)

Where's the "match fixing" in all that?

Of course players are being offered bribes. Duh. Football players are offered bribes. Baseball players are offered bribes. Players in all major sports are offered bribes all the time. Jeeez, it is no news being trumped up into big news.

Gambling, gambling, gambling is the cause for 99% of it, not the occassional low-ranked player who wants to buy his way into "lucky loser" status for a chance to play in a major tournament.

And the more gambling there is on tennis, the more frequent bribe offering in tennis will be. It's a Law of (Human) Nature. Which is why I don't carry ads for gambling on tennis.

Tip: Ignore the press' tone. Especially when it's screeching bloody murder, pay careful attention to exactly what is being reported. (You need a sense of humor for this.) Bribe offering is not match fixing.

The fact that players are offered bribes does not make tennis corrupt.

TAKING BRIBES is match fixing. Too complex?

This is the latest craze in blaming the victim: because some crook offers a bribe, tennis is viewed as the corrupt one. So, what if the player refused the bribe? Muckrakers conveniently ignore that fact.

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