Really sad and upsetting news from The Age today about 18-year-old Australian Open Boys Champion Oliver Anderson charged with match-fixing. Anderson was charged fixing a match at the Traralgon Challenger tournament in October 2016. I suggest you to read the article to find out more about the case, but it’s just very sad that a player who has a bright future on the men’s tour resorts to such crude means to getting more money. Match-fixing in tennis is not unheard of by any means and something the International Tennis Federation is trying to target more through their Tennis Integrity Unit …
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Yes, it has finally happened. Tennis tour nutcase/daredevil/pest Daniel “Crazy Dani” Koellerer is banned from the tour. Here is the press release from The Tennis Integrity Unit. If you want to watch some clips from Crazy Dani you can check out this Tennisnerd post In one way it’s a shame that it’s gone, at least for the media exposure, but looking at the tour and tennis as a professional sport more than just entertainment, everybody should be pretty happy he’s gone. Press Release Player banned for life and fined US$100,000 for three violations under the Uniform Tennis Anti-Corruption Program Austrian …