{"id":196416,"date":"2025-06-19T06:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T06:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/196416\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T06:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T06:13:10","slug":"gambling-and-social-media-abuse-of-athletes-what-is-going-on-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/196416\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambling and social media abuse of athletes – what is going on?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In February, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) announced an extension of a deal with Stake – the Curacao-based gambling company which also sponsors sports teams including the Sauber Formula 1 team, and Everton – making it the official betting partner of the Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup.<\/p>\n

Stake was subsequently found to have broken UK Gambling Commission rules<\/a> by using pornographic content to promote gambling to young people, and abandoned its licence to operate in the UK.<\/p>\n

Stake’s ITF deal remains in place, and tennis’ governing body said in a statement to the BBC: “The ITF partners with a variety of brands from a range of sectors to support our events and tours and 90% of our revenue is reinvested back into the global development of the game.<\/p>\n

“All partnerships are rigorously vetted and involve only regulated parties wherever this is relevant.”<\/p>\n

The Madrid Open, the Miami Open and Swedish Open are now sponsored by South Africa-based Betway.<\/p>\n

In 2023, the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) signed a multi-year agreement with online gaming company FanDuel Group, applying to the Tour in North, South and Central America.<\/p>\n

The WTA also sells its data to the company Stats Perform, the ATP to Sportradar and the ITF to Infront, for them to distribute to licenced betting operators.<\/p>\n

The decision to sell rights in this way was to ensure betting was regulated, replacing the unregulated world of ‘courtsiders’<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In February, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) announced an extension of a deal with Stake – the Curacao-based…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-196416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}