What's going on at Winston Salem?

[Fabresque]

Dolgopolov is being investigated for match fixing after his shock defeat to Monteiro. Betting patterns were more than suspicious.

Yen Hsun Lu was 1.3 to win against Tursunov but all of a sudden it's up to 2.2 before the match starts.

Veteran Carlos Berlocq was given lop sided odds and his inexperienced opponent Alex Bolt, who only played in one official atp tournament the entire year, is favorite to win.

What exactly is going on at Winston Salem?

 

[tennis_pro]

Interesting. But Lu can't be that stupid to fix the match after what happened to Dolgopolov. It's basically suicide.

 

[HAMPER7777777]

Whats Winston Salem?

 

[noobforehand20]

winsto salem the most spicy tourney on recent years, should get promoted

 

[HAMPER7777777]

winsto salem the most spicy tourney on recent years, should get promoted

Honestly I think ATP should take A Week off before US Open.

 

[West Coast Ace]

[QUOTE="Fabresque, post: 11527489, member: 75288]

Yen Hsun Lu was 1.3 to win against Tursunov but all of a sudden it's up to 2.2 before the match starts.
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Tursunov ended up being replaced by an LL - so easy to guess word of his (apparent) injury leaked out and the betting frenzy ensued.

 

[noobforehand20]

Honestly I think ATP should take A Week off before US Open.

remember that there are 2 types of players that play the week before the tournament: a) those who are struggling, either low ranked ones who grind every week for points and money and b) those who just like to play some matches to get rhythm before the tournament, remember its no coincidence that there are 250 tournaments the week before a slam and eliminating those from the calendar would be a blow to those low ranked players who might want the chance to play a tournament with no top players, it doesnt affect top players at all because they usually are already at the site of the event a week in advanced, so its not logical to remove those events from the calendar, best example for me is wawrinka in geneva 2015, just before RG, who know how that french open would have turned out if stan had not played that small tournament before (regardless of him losing in first round)

 

[tacou]

remember that there are 2 types of players that play the week before the tournament: a) those who are struggling, either low ranked ones who grind every week for points and money and b) those who just like to play some matches to get rhythm before the tournament, remember its no coincidence that there are 250 tournaments the week before a slam and eliminating those from the calendar would be a blow to those low ranked players who might want the chance to play a tournament with no top players, it doesnt affect top players at all because they usually are already at the site of the event a week in advanced, so its not logical to remove those events from the calendar, best example for me is wawrinka in geneva 2015, just before RG, who know how that french open would have turned out if stan had not played that small tournament before (regardless of him losing in first round)

exactly..what is the benefit to eliminating these events? no one is forced to play them.

 

[MasturB]

Don't think anyone cares about Winston-Salem other than to make extra money. Why grind and wear yourself out in the Southern humidity for a few bucks when you can make 4-5x that much just from dealing with sharks and mob gamblers?

 

[HAMPER7777777]

exactly..what is the benefit to eliminating these events? no one is forced to play them.

Because I think the schedule should be Steamlined. Just have the slams, the masters, and thats it. Everything else should be a challenger or whatever. Because honestly, nobody really is gonna Watch it on ESPN2.