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Nikolai Davydenko fined $10,000 · 2007-01-12 15:20
According to Reuters, Russian tennis player Nikolai Davydenko has been fined $10,000 for making negative comments about Sydney’s $1.2 million tennis tournament.
The world No. 3 told reporters that some of the sport’s top players had pulled out of the last major warm-up for next week’s Australian Open because they did not care about the event.
ATP chairman Etienne De Villiers, head of the body that governs men’s tennis, said: “I’m satisfied that the $10,000 fine for Davydenko is the appropriate sanction for the comments that were made that not only damaged the very fine tournament in Sydney but also sullies the reputation of our great sport.”
Davydenko pulled out of the Sydney tournament on Wednesday citing a foot injury that doctors fear may be a stress fracture.
Spanish world No. 2 Rafael Nadal, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Nadya Petrova from Russia, and Thailand’s Paradorn Srichapan retired from the Sydney event. Australia’s Lleyton Hewitt withdrew on the eve of the tournament, citing a calf problem and Russian Dmitry Tursunov pulled out before his match after injuring his wrist in practice.
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