Izvan i iza turnira

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Beretini nece igrati MC, Rim i Madrid, a bas sumnjam da ce se vratiti samo za RG

 

[Drug Crni]

Ciriak prodao vlasnistvo nad madridskim Mastersom IMG-u.

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Znaci za sada je privremeno koliko razumem, ukoliko Serena odluci da ipak nastavi tenis Muratoglu se vraca Sereni

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Dobih ideju na drugom topiku, pa sam znatiželjan šta mislite:

Ko vam je najprecenjeniji i najpotcenjeniji igrač u obe konkurencije, recimo u nekoj novojoj istoriji tura (šta znam, od 2000 pa na dalje)?

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I sincerely regret my gesture on Tuesday at the ITF tournament in Ghana, during my match against Rafa. I unfortunately had a bad move against Rafa, after an extremely frustrating and difficult match for me. During the game, I was repeatedly verbally abused by many people in the audience, including insults against my mother; But that doesn't excuse my behavior. Above all, I would like to publicly apologize to Rafa. I am wrong and my gesture was completely unacceptable. I accept all consequences arising from my behavior from the ITF authorities; I will use this time to see how I can better handle these kinds of situations in the future, in a way that reflects my true personality.

 

 

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Edited April 8, 2022 by wwww

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Puj ima novog trenera, Feliksa Mantilju

 

 

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Opelka ce opet da dobije kaznu jer nije skinuo kacket tokom ceremonije dodele trofeja.

[Keira]

Valjda je poučen iskustvom prilagodio veličinu sponzorskog logoa  (ako sponzor nije i sponzor turnira)

Secam se kada su Ivanovicevoj na RG rekli da skine vizir ili ga zameni sa drugim na kojem je manji logo. 

 

[Drug Crni]

Vidim da se na drugoj temi pise o ambicijama i interesovanjima Ash Barty nakon zavrsetka igracke karijere.
Bianca Andreescu je vec uveliko u spisateljskim vodama..zavrsila je svoju prvu slikovnicu za decu.




Knjiga izlazi 31.maja.

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intervju s Nalbandijanom, moze da se ukljuci prevod, a na kraju prica i na engleskom:

 

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On 4/10/2022 at 11:18 PM, wwww said:

Opelka ce opet da dobije kaznu jer nije skinuo kacket tokom ceremonije dodele trofeja.

 

 

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totalnni idiotizam. gledala sam ceremoniju, vetar je duvao kao nenormalan, a covek ima duzu kosu - letela bi na sve strane da je nije stavio pod kacket.

 

ono kad ATP nema pametnija posla nego da maltretira igrace oko gluposti.

kao ono kad je svojevremeno Wimbldon naredio Venus da presvuce svoj punk brus jer se ponekad desi da bretela proviri ispod majice (pa ce povredit nezne wimbldonske oci iznenadna pojava neke druge boje osim bele ) .

Glupost je beskonacna...

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2022/04/14/revealed-secret-society-tennis-umpires-living-rule-fear-power/

 

 

Revealed: 'Secret society' of tennis umpires living under reign of fear, power abuses and sexual favours

 

Exclusive: Telegraph investigation has exposed allegations of exploitation going on for decades which have been kept secret

BySimon Briggs, 14 April 2022

 

Tennis umpires are living under a “rule of fear” and are at risk of predatory sexual advances according to leading figures within the sport, who have called for urgent reform to prevent the exploitation of young officials.

A Telegraph investigation into the case of Soeren Friemel – the ITF head of officiating who resigned last month after making “inappropriate comments and invitations” to a younger umpire – has revealed previous instances of similar behaviour.

 

We found that:

• Power abuses of this kind have been known to tennis authorities for at least 15 years
• Non-disclosure agreements have been employed to keep such cases secret
• “Using your body” – being open to sexual advances – has long been considered a fast track for aspiring umpires
• A small number of people have disproportionate influence over umpiring appointments, creating networks of patronage and the potential for exploitation
• People are afraid to speak out, as whistleblowers tend to be ostracised

The investigation also found that tennis’s authorities, including the International Tennis Federation, have kept a lid on controversies by banning umpires from any interaction with media.

In the words of Richard Ings – a former head of officiating at the ATP Tour – “This rule was designed to prevent discussion of particular instances within matches. It was never designed to protect the sport from embarrassment. But that’s what it has become.”

Friemel’s resignation took place in the middle of the most turbulent period for player-umpire relations since John McEnroe was at his peak. In the first major event of 2022 – January’s Australian Open – Canada’s Denis Shapovalov earned an US$8,000 fine for yelling “You guys are all corrupt” at chair umpire Carlos Bernardes.

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Soeren Friemel, pictured in 2016, resigned as ITF head of officiating in April after an investigation into allegations of improper conduct CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES

 

The case for a new umpiring regime is today put forward by Andrew Jarrett, the Englishman who was one of Friemel’s predecessors as ITF head of officiating, while also serving as Wimbledon referee between 2006 and 2019.

 

“The recent investigation by a QC [into Friemel’s behaviour] and the subsequent announcement by the ITF came as no great surprise,” Jarrett told the Telegraph in an email. “World tennis and the officials working within it deserve better governance. This is now an opportunity to make changes to a system that has long been broken.”

 

 

'We have to rip the system up'

 

Friemel’s case drew worldwide interest when it was first reported by the Telegraph on Feb 3. A 50-year-old German, Friemel was suspended for 12 months in relation to four incidents involving the same umpire between 2011 and 2015. According to an ITF spokesperson, “The issue was the situation of power imbalance.”

 

Now the Telegraph can reveal that similar allegations had previously been made against another leading tennis official, who cannot be named for legal reasons. This second case is widely known within the officiating world but has never been brought to public notice, because of the non-disclosure agreements used in what one insider called “a compromise departure”.
 

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According to a senior tennis administrator, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the fact that two similar instances have emerged from the closed-off world of umpiring is evidence of the need for change.

“Officiating needs to be reviewed,” the administrator said. “We just have to accept it’s not right. It doesn’t need a sticking plaster. We have to rip it all up.”

 

 

Other former officials have told the Telegraph that abuses of various kinds have been going on in secret for decades. Networks of patronage develop because power is concentrated in the hands of a small number of individuals. Young officials have every reason to want to curry favour with their superiors.

 

“In my time, it was a well-known fast-track for your career if you were open to using your body to promote your career,” said Martin Wikstrom, a Swede who was a chair umpire in the early 2000s, before becoming a successful business executive. “When you look at some of the officials that came through – let's say within 10 years – there was no way that they would have made it, if the decision was purely based on their competence.”

 

Friemel’s suspension is unusual in that it emerged into the public domain, unlike previous scandals. Umpiring’s culture of silence starts with the Code of Conduct signed by all officials, stating that they “shall not, at any time, participate in any media interviews or meetings with journalists … without the approval of the supervisor/referee”. In practice, this approval is rarely given. And without any means for the younger, less experienced officials to have their voices heard, they become vulnerable to exploitation.

 

“Officials are afraid to speak,” said Richard Ings, who was the ATP’s head of officiating from 2001 to 2005, as well as the world’s highest-ranked chair umpire in the late 1990s. “If they do tell a reporter about anything that is happening backstage, even anonymously, their bosses will go hunting for who gave that information. If they find who spoke out, or maybe just have suspicions, they don’t even have to bring a Code of Conduct charge. They can simply not select that person for the next job. People quickly get the message and there is a wall of silence that develops.”

 

'Your face needs to fit'

 

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If the umpiring world worked smoothly on its own terms, its inward-looking nature would not be so much of an issue. But the promotion of officials is a subjective business, which is further complicated by an apparently dysfunctional structure.

As one former grand slam referee told the Telegraph, “The structure is a legacy from the beginning of tennis’s Open era in 1968. The tours needed to provide top-class officiating for their events. But this meant we ended up with three different organisations, each with its own officials. It’s a horrible outcome because you end up with each group protecting its own patch.”

 

The ITF employ nine full-time officials, the Association of Tennis Professionals nine and the Women’s Tennis Association seven, plus five more in a “development” category.

Chair umpires start off with a white badge and then earn promotions through the three higher categories – bronze, silver and gold. Their performances are assessed by umpires in the band immediately above them, which presents an immediate conflict of interest. One former gold-badge umpire told the Telegraph that he had been encouraged by his peers not to mark too generously.

 

At the end of each year, a five-person “re-evaluation panel” meets. The panel – which comprises the heads of officiating at the three tours, plus one representative from the grand-slam events and one independent observer – decides who should be shunted up the hierarchy, and who down, in a process which many believe to be flawed.

 

 

“It’s a boys’ club,” said one silver-badge umpire. “They manage the marks to keep people in certain positions. The organisations know who they want and then the end-of-year meeting is a negotiation, an exchange. ‘If you let us have our person, we’ll let you have yours.’ They arrange the grades they want, pump them up for the favoured ones, penalise others by ignoring the good things.

 

“Supervisors and judges have the flexibility to write up the reports in any way they want. It’s not transparent. It’s not neutral. Gold badge umpires” – of whom there are 33 – “come in 50 shades of gold. Some have half the draw on their ‘No List’, while others can handle all-comers. [The ‘No List’ comprises the players whose matches an umpire is kept away from, because of previous run-ins.]”

 

According to another official, the lack of clarity around appointments allows networks of patronage to develop. “Nowadays, for an umpire to make a good career or to be promoted, it is not enough to be good in the chair. Your face needs to fit as well. If you make the right connections, or go to the right weddings, your career will jump up in front of people who are much better than you, and you’ll keep going even if you make very bad mistakes on live worldwide TV.”

 

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The Telegraph put these claims of nepotism to Kris Dent, the ITF’s director of professional tennis, whose department oversees officiating. “We take any suggestions of wrongdoing seriously and have shown we will act where necessary,” Dent replied in an email. “This includes tackling any perception of unfairness, so that all umpires feel that they are treated the same. We also need to continue our efforts to address diversity in terms of male and female umpires and attract more people from Africa and some parts of Asia.

“I recognise that there are a few who don’t embrace these changes, but change is a constant and we must continue to adapt if we are to remain fit for purpose. The ITF chose to appoint an independent QC to run the investigation into Soeren Friemel. We also asked an arbitration firm based in London to handle the ensuing appeal. In 2016 we introduced additional review and approval layers for Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup ties, in terms of the appointment process of officials. It’s not the case at the ITF that these decisions are made by one person.”

 

 

A better model?

 

Spoiler

 

The Telegraph also asked Dent whether the tours should continue to run officiating, or whether it would be better if umpires came under the remit of the International Tennis Integrity Agency – a new umbrella organisation that was created last year to oversee the game’s anti-doping and anti-match fixing operations.

“I have yet to see a compelling case for that,” Dent replied. “What I do believe strongly is that we and the tours must continue to align and work closely for the benefit of officiating globally. By working together we can successfully tackle emerging challenges such as the role of new technology like electronic line-calling, which will undoubtedly require changes to the development pathway for the next generation of umpires and officials.” 

 

 

Dent’s views on this last question are not shared by all. The senior tennis administrator – who preferred to remain anonymous – emphasised the need for more separation between officials and players.

 

“When the tours are reliant on good relations with the players, and officials are ruling on their matches, that’s quite tough,” the administrator said. “There’s a conflict of interest. An independent body is a very wise idea. The Friemel case has to be a wake-up call.”

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Several recent incidents have drawn attention to the nature of the player-official relationship. Last month, world No3 Alexander Zverev received a suspended sentence for slamming his racket four times into the umpire’s chair after a disputed line call in Acapulco. The decision, taken by ATP head of officiating Miro Bratoev, led Wikstrom to comment on social media that “officials [are] sitting in the laps of the top players”.

 

Last week, ATP chief executive Andrea Gaudenzi was forced to send a circular to the men’s tour in which he complained that “the first three months of the season have seen an unusual frequency of high-profile incidents involving unsportsmanlike conduct” and promised sterner penalties in the future.

The ITF began advertising for Friemel’s replacement in late February. The appointment is seen by many in the business as a moment of truth. Kris Dent says that “we’re looking outside of tennis as well as inside,” and points out that an external agency – Sports Recruitment International – is handling the process.

 

For those who feel excluded or exploited by the system, a continuity candidate – meaning someone who is already high up in the industry – would be a further indication that nothing will change. They point at those who have been at the top of officiating for decades and suggest that their very silence is a kind of complicity.

Some believe that Friemel himself could yet return to frontline officiating, perhaps even stepping back into his other former position as referee of the US Open. This would not be a widely popular outcome, however. There are many who see his ITF resignation as an opportunity to rethink the whole area.

 

 

 

pre 5-6 godina je jedan sudija dobio otkaz jer je ukazao na sve ovo (citala tekst koji je neki tip napisao, cini mi se da ga je intervjuisao posle svega). zaboravila sam ime sudije, bio je onizi, procelav i cini mi se nekog arapskog ili bliskoistocnog porekla. tip je opisao situacije kojima je prisustvovao kada je onaj bradati francuski sudija (Cedric Mourier) onako bahato i bezobrazno komentarisao neke zenske sudije i slicno (ovoliko se secam, tekst je bio poduzi, s mnogo specificnih opisa situacija).

 

nasla sam koji je bivsi sudija u pitanju: Egipcanin Magdi Somat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 15, 2022 by wwww

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Umpire Magdi Somat opens up on how the ATP got rid of him

 

By Chris de Waard

Egypt based umpire Magdi Somat had been a steady factor on the ATP Tour for many years, umpiring the matches of all the world's best tennis players. However, in the end Somat's successful and lengthy track record wasn't enough to hold onto his job. An unconfirmed incident at the tournament of Metz in September 2014 was enough to remove Somat from his position, without the ATP ever launching an investigation into the true happenings.

In a year when stories about doping and match-fixing have already tainted tennis' reputation, this is the first story offering a look into the inner workings of the ATP, showing how their employees apparently don't have any protection when they get caught up in an incident. It also shows a company culture in which no one dares to speak up about any wrongdoings, likely fearing for their jobs. For female employees this might mean having to put up with sexual harassment.

A deciding moment which led to Somat falling out of favor with some of the most influential ATP officials was when he spoke up against this sexual harassment within the ATP. It happened after witnessing an incident at the tournament of Metz in 2014. Somat overheard a female ATP employee, who is still working for the ATP and shall remain unnamed, being verbally abused by some of her male colleagues. Somat confronted her and asked why she allowed them to talk to her like that, advising her to contact Gayle Bradshaw, Executive Vice President Rules & Competition. Unfortunately she currently will not make any further comments on the matter, likely not wanting to put her job at risk. However, I have read the email that was sent to Bradshaw, which contains her full story.

During her first year at the ATP in 2012, she worked solely at Challengers and never encountered any bad behavior. Unfortunately it only took one tournament at ATP level for that to change. At Brisbane in 2013, she was in the middle of a chat conversation with a colleague when ATP tour manager Fernando Sanchez, whom she had never met before, took her computer and wrote ''FUCK YOU!!!'' in the conversation, after which Sanchez ran away and her colleague disconnected. This caused her to burst into tears and she recalls how the situation completely destroyed her. At the time of the email Sanchez still regarded it as a marvelous prank and would tell it to everyone who wanted to hear, never apologizing to her, even though it could have gotten her fired.

The harassment continued in Montpellier and Estoril. She was seated in the chair umpire office and whenever she came upstairs to talk to supervisor Carlos Sanches, Sanches would start joking in French with Sanchez and umpire Cedric Mourier, which she was unable to understand. After these tournaments she worked with different people for the rest of the year and didn't encounter any further negative incidents.

However, in the following year (2014) she worked at Montpellier again and that is where she felt for the first time she might not be able to continue her job, which she hated herself for. Another unnamed employee sexually harassed her by saying ''I'm booooooreeed, show me your tits''. On the last day of the tournament Mourier forgot his tablet computers, which she was supposed to update, and asked her to come to his hotel room. This caused everyone to start cracking jokes about how she was going to show him how to ''plug in and plug out things'' and how to ''load stuff''. After this continued for a while, she retreated to her hotel room and cried again, promising herself to not allow anyone to treat her like that anymore.

At her next tournament in Estoril, she refused to eat dinner with the men who continually harassed her, after which Sanches called her to his office and reprimanded her, saying this could cause her problems in the future. At her next tournaments in Bastad, Gstaad, and Kitzbühel, Sanchez kept harassing her day after day with explicit questions about her sex life, for example asking about her favorite position and what kind of porn she watches. Asking him to stop was futile. The most offensive and rude incident happened in Gstaad, when the first thing umpire Gianluca Moscarella asked upon entering her office was whether she wanted to join him for sex. She had never met him before. He kept insisting and after asking him why he was acting like that, Moscarella answered: ''You provoked me by having big tits and a big ass.''

Moscarella made a statement on the matter, saying that the allegations are totally false and offensive to him as a man, husband, father and tennis official. He denies every kind of sexual harassment. However, after I posted this article a tennis journalist shared a similar story about Moscarella on Twitter, which you can read here and here.

After speaking to someone [unnamed] about all of the above, she was told everything was her fault. She should either adapt or get a different job, because the others have been working together for years. Shortly afterwards she received a message from her boss, saying he received a report about how she was doing a bad job. This was the first time she ever heard something like that, but the report was simply accepted as the truth, with her boss telling her that she needs to be more careful. Later on she received the news that in the following year she would no longer be travelling the ATP tour, but would be assigned to an office job on a set location. Regarding Metz, when Somat overheard a conversation and started getting involved, she described how another female employee (whom she mentions by name) was getting harassed by Sanchez as well throughout the week. Despite everything written above reaching a top ATP executive, no action has ever been taken.

It however did put Somat on the radar as a troublemaker even stronger, as she named him in the email as the person who advised her to write it. The first strange incident involving him had already occurred earlier that year at the tournament of Oeiras, which took place from April 26th until May 4th. Prior to a match which Somat was set to umpire, he noticed the net machine was absent, which is used to determine whether or not a serve has touched the net cord. Upon informing the chief of umpires, Marta Andrea, she gave a sudden angry response and screamed at him that it was his responsibility to bring it. After the match, Somat went to complain about her rude response to Carlos Sanches, the ATP supervisor. Andrea was called to Sanches' office and turned the story around, saying Somat was the one not only being rude to her, but also to the court maintenance staff and two line umpires. She also stated that the two line umpires had written a complaint about Somat.

 

Upon hearing this, Somat immediately requested for everyone involved to be brought into the office, so Andrea's story could be confirmed. Five people of the court maintenance crew were brought in, but all of them said Somat had never been rude to them. Sanches also proceeded to assign Somat to matches for the following day, which wouldn't have happened had he taken Andrea's story seriously. The two line umpires had already left the tournament and couldn't be brought into the office.

However, two weeks later Somat encountered one of them, Miguel Leal, during the tournament in Rome. Upon finding out his name was on a complaint he had nothing to do with, Leal immediately confronted ATP supervisors Sanchez, Lars, Graff, and Mark Darby, expressing his anger on how this had been possible. Had Somat never encountered Leal again, the fraudulent complaint would have stayed on Somat's record, despite Sanchez knowing from testimonies that the person who mentioned the complaint was not reliable and lied about other parts of the incident as well. This is very similar to the female employee whose boss suddenly received a report about her alleged bad work, which was accepted as the truth without any further investigation and led to her being removed from her position. We will see this being repeated in Metz.

Before moving on to the happenings at Metz in September, Somat recalled another remarkable and shady incident, as a result of a match he umpired at the ATP 1000 tournament of Cincinnati in August. Despite Marinko Matosevic winning his first round match against Nicolas Mahut 6-4 7-6, the Australian also known as "Mad Dog" kicked off after the match. Matosevic refused to shake Somat's hand because he disagreed with an out call on one of his first serves in the tiebreak. He also vented his anger on a camera, kicking it and spitting on it while cursing. Matosevic ended up being fined $10,000 for his outburst. ATP supervisor Thomas Karlberg later thanked a baffled Somat, saying how he and other ATP officials used the money to treat themselves to a lavish $1500 dinner.

A month later Somat would umpire his final tournament in Metz. On Thursday, after finishing the final match on center court, Karlberg requested to speak to him. Karlberg accused him of displaying a bad attitude towards the line umpires and players, which made the people at the tournament very angry and put Karlberg in a bad position. Karlberg asked what happened with a certain service line umpire, Benjamin Racine, to which Somat replied that nothing happened other than him signaling Racine to speed up his calls at one point. He also claimed there had been a lot of players who made a request for Somat not to umpire their matches. Somat asked who these players were, which Karlberg couldn't answer, as he had to ask Sanchez the following day.

When Somat left the office, he saw Mourier (who was the tournament referee that week) and Racine enter Karlberg's office. When Racine came out of the office, Somat asked him about the complaints. Racine confirmed there weren't any and he didn't have any problems with Somat. Somat asked him to repeat this in front of Karlberg and Mourier, to avoid a similar situation as in Oeiras, which he did. Somat thanked him, after which Racine left. However, Karlberg wasn't interested in the truth, as he then told Somat: ''Now you pissed me off.''

Angry about yet another strange incident and wanting to tell someone the entire story, Somat called supervisor Tom Barnes, who was working in Kuala Lumpur. Barnes told him to just concentrate and keep his head up, because he is doing a great job. That day Karlberg didn't send out the assignments for the next day in the evening as usual, but only did so the next morning. Somat was given the biggest match of the day, the quarterfinal between top seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and David Goffin. After umpiring the doubles final on Sunday as well, Somat's career was over.


A couple of days later, Barnes sent Somat an email asking him to confirm that what he said on the phone was accurate. Just three days after Somat replied, the bad news arrived:

''Tom Barnes 10/1/2014
To: Magdi Somat
Cc: Gayle David Bradshaw, Lars Graff

Dear Magdi,

Thank you for your note regarding the incidents that occurred in Metz. Your comments are consistent with your verbal explanations you made to me on the phone. Your comments are also consistent with the facts of the incidents as presented by Thomas Karlberg.
Upon completing my investigation, I have come to the conclusion that your behavior is inconsistent with our expectations of an ATP Designated Chair Umpire.

Specifically:

1] you were insubordinate, aggressive and disrespectful when
addressing Thomas Karlberg in that you were yelling at him in
front of other people. You screamed at Thomas that “Now this is
enough and this has to stop.”
2] you became physical with a linesman by grabbing him by the
arm and forcing him to enter the supervisor’s office with you.
3] At the tournament your manner of communicating with the
linesman was rude, aggressive and arrogant.
4] in your discussion with Thomas Karlberg, you brought up the
issues that arose at the Oeiras tournament which are unrelated
to Metz, but you indicated that everyone has something against
you because in Metz, the same kind of things were happening.
You also made this point when you spoke with me on the phone.

The FTO’s in Rome held a 2 hour meeting with you and
discussed many of the same issues that arose in Metz and
indicated that you needed to make some adjustments to your
presentation on site and your attitude. It appears that the
message did not get through.

As a result of the incidents in Metz, we have decided to
withdraw your invitation to the Challenger Finals and to
withdraw your designations to the following events:

Chennai
Quito
Sao Paulo
Rio de Janeiro
Buenos Aires
Indian Wells (additional)
Irving Challenger
Miami (additional)

Further, the FTO Supervisors will review this matter and others
regarding your behavior, during our year-end meeting in November.

Tom Barnes''

This hardly seems the kind of investigation you can conclude in just three days from the other side of the world, especially given that you are taking away a man's job with your decision. Somat was never invited back. It strongly looks like only Karlberg's version of the story was used to conclude the investigation. A proper investigation would have involved extensively questioning everyone who was there in person, who would be able to confirm or deny all the allegations. Not only Karlberg, Mourier, and the line umpire were present, three chair umpires were outside of the office as well when the first two points allegedly happened--namely Aurélie Tourte, Ahmed Abdel-Azim, and Mohamed El Jennati. Somat immediately sent them and Racine emails, requesting them to give their accounts of the incident. They never responded. Nor did they respond to my recent enquiries when I reached out for comment.

Would Karlberg have given Somat the biggest match of Friday and the doubles final on Sunday if on Thursday he actually was insubordinate, aggressive, and disrespectful towards him, together with getting rude, aggressive, arrogant, and even physical towards a linesman? He more likely would have been removed from the tournament entirely. A distorted version of the story is easy enough to create in hindsight, especially when the witnesses will never speak up, knowing they will be unemployed soon enough as well if they did. With Somat advising the female employee to report the sexual harassment against her, it might well have given the ATP a strong incentive not to reinstate him during the year-end meeting in November, making an uncomfortable and controversial story disappear. All of this without launching a thorough investigation into the matter.

Somat has tried to get the ATP to properly investigate his case, but they are unwilling. He offered to take a lie detector test on his own costs, but they refused. They even refuse to speak to him in person altogether. After abandoning his hope of achieving anything by reasoning with the ATP, he now just wants to get his story out there. A dangerous endeavor by itself, as emailing the story to some of his tennis colleagues saw him get hit with another one-year suspension. The tennis authorities ruled the emails a breach of their code of conduct.

Although the ATP may have abandoned Somat, the players still love him. He umpired at the American World Team Tennis competition last year, where he received encouraging words from various current top 100 players. The organization was pleased with Somat as well, inviting him back for the upcoming edition. And I'm sure Ernests Gulbis also has fond memories of the man who always remembered the Latvian doesn't like cold water, making sure there were four bottles of room temperature water next to his bench whenever he umpired one of his matches. These are the people that need to speak up to make Somat's story known.

Some players are already getting involved as a result of this article, with ATP #265 Tennys Sandgren tweeting about it and ATP #159 Peter Polansky, ATP #332 Philip Bester and ATP #828 Jarmere Jenkins retweeting him. Sandgren also remarked he has only met players who liked to have Somat on their court.

The ATP released the following statement in response to this article: ''This report relates to a disgruntled former chair umpire contractor who has not worked for ATP since 2014. The article makes numerous untrue statements about ATP and its personnel.''

22nd August 2016

 

 

 

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https://www.kurir.rs/sport/tenis/3915741/ema-radukanu-britanska-teniserka-bogatstvo-sponzori-zarada-tenis-us-open

 

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Pre neki dan je na kzs tokom fed kupa pricala o tome kako nema nokte na prstima na nozi... Bas mi je bilo tuzno kad sam procitala. Zanisljam sebe na mestu njene mame. Da li bih bila srecna sa tim milionima, a detetu otpali nokti od treninga

 

[Marko]

Ma, čuj nokti na nogama joj otpali. Moj drugar iz gimnazije, što je trenirao tenis od rane osnovne, je sa 16-17g imao nešto što se ni nije moglo nazvati noktima. Sećam se kako je često bilo smešno, ako npr leti po danu svi zajedno izađemo u grad- Neke negovane devojke i on jedno pored drugog kad sede na klupi, što se stopala tiče kao da nisu ista vrsta 😄 

[McLeod]

Ja sam imao drugara kojem su otpadali nokti na palcevima jer je igrao igrice 12 sati dnevno.

[Boxy]

 

[McLeod]

Ovo apsolutno nema nikakvog smisla