“No tennis player would risk his career for an incomprehensible victory.” Tartakova – about Karatsev

The stupidity of tennis players involved in match-fixing is unusual for a Russian Aslan Karatsev said “” host Sofia Tartakova.

Earlier, German broadcaster ZDF reported that Karatsev, who sits 40th in the ATP rankings, could take part in five fixed matches, including two Challenger Series doubles matches in Kazakhstan and Finland.

– All political aspects must be put aside, it has nothing to do with politics. Such conversations are very common in tennis, at almost every tournament, as unfortunately betting and match fixing is a common story, albeit at a low level. It’s not about the Grand Slam or the Masters.

All we have now is an investigation by journalists. There were no statements from the ITF. When in fact they begin investigations, it immediately becomes known. In addition to the work of journalists, we see nothing. Each tournament contains information that a Tunisian tennis player or Italian athletes are suspected of match-fixing. Officially we have no information, and Aslan, thank God, is playing and will continue to do so. There will be no “wow” effect from this story.

We talk a lot about match fixing, so if people followed tennis a little better, they would realize that it doesn’t smell like roast at all. It’s an individual sport, everything is scrutinized here. Moment of work, nothing more.

Aslan is a cool, interesting and deep person. He worked very hard and strived to be where he is now. Such stupidity, which some people do, I think, is unusual for him. When you are a top tennis player, when you are always at the forefront, no one will risk their career for an incomprehensible victory, Tartakova told .

Karatsev is 28 years old. The tennis player has three titles in ATP tournaments, last year the Russian reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open.