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LONDON, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- The London-based Association of Tennis Professionals has hired a former U.S. Mafia member to lecture tennis pros on illegal gambling.
Authorities believe that organized crime is behind betting scams that have recently tarnished the reputation of professional tennis, the Sunday Times of London reported.
Earlier this year, the ATP hired Michael Franzese, a self-confessed member of New York's Colombo crime family, to lecture about 200 professional tennis players on the adverse effects of illegal betting. Franzese served a 10-year prison sentence after facing repeated racketeering charges, the Times reported.
Franzese is lecturing in the wake of investigations into unusual betting patterns regarding last week's defeat of high-ranking Nikolay Davydenko by the 87th-ranked Argentinean Vassallo Arguello" class="tpstyle">Martin Vassallo Arguello in the Orange Prokom Open in Sopot, Poland, the Times reported.
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