Fifth set: Murray 3-2 Gasquet Gasquet holds serve, gathering every last ounce of his strength. IS. The 19-year-old Frenchman has enjoyed a sensational couple of months, overshadowed only by his contemporary Rafael Nadal. Win!) "Do you want to lose the match and get $1,000 (£770)?" A brilliant drop volley from Gasquet. You can't do it. The people who think Murray is going to win Wimbledon watch tennis for two weeks every year. And the Scot has brought the sledgehammer in his bag along with the feather duster. The man has gone. Can't he just try and be nice? Call him off? The Gaz Man is still fighting for this. But he's looking puffed and stretched here. Do you surely understand?" Get your mind on the game, son.And, oh dear, he has been clutching the right wrist.Murray makes Gasquet work quite hard for it before ballooning a forehand out at 30-30 and yelling "Gooaaawaaa!!". Can the crowd? The player tells Hossam, "Hopefully it's OK because I need the money." He's drifting out there. Three of them. Listen to the full BBC Arabic/Radio 4 investigation, Can We Fix It? He really is on fire here and appears to have a serious grudge against the ball. One lovely forehand winner from Gasquet. Fifth set: Murray 3-1 Gasquet A-Mu's in the zone. Not that any of this is his fault of course. Second set: Gasquet leads 7-5, 3-1 Murray holds, but only just. They're just so wrong. His power has dropped alarmingly. Ching, ching. Gasquet is imploding here There's a couple of desperation aces, a crazed charge to the net and still some zip in that backhand, but his … He told investigators his father "was really pissed and he was like, 'You're ruining your life'". Game Murray. And why not. Third set: Murray* 7-6, 6-3, 1-2 Gasquet For all that, Gasquet has fairly strolled through his last couple of service games. First set: Gasquet 5-4 MurrayGasquet holds easily, despite the fact his shirt is almost falling off every time he serves. "Gasquet? It's an icy clutch. 30-15. He keeps looking at the ump for help. According to Brad Gilbert Murray's a changed man here: "He's not moping, he doesn't have his head down, you're seeing a lot more fist pumps". Also very foolish. Then he scuffs and drop-shots and roars his way to 5-3. Suddenly Murray's whacking it into the net. He looks like a park player when he does that. Clock ticks in Iran as rivals square up over nuclear deal, The dentist who helped a koala to walk. Volley to far corner. * Murray 5-6 Gasquet Gasquet now winning 86% of points on his first serve - only one ace, but the direction and … Gasquet, Barrere and Bonaventure won their first round matches on Tuesday while Flipkens won her first round match on Monday. Fist pump. As one of the best junior players in the world, hovering on the edge of the top 10, he had started to play in the big ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) tournaments with the stars of the sport. Most of the players in this match-fixing ring have not been sanctioned. he asked. Just hit it, man. image caption Richard Gasquet playing Hossam at the Qatar Open But in Sharm el-Sheikh it was different. Peter Brooksbank says: "The problem with Wimbledon's dunder-headed jingoism is that it is simply far too polite. Exciting stuff. "I had a player tell me he is definitely going to get a lifetime ban soon and is going to go out with a bang in the last couple of tournaments he is going to play. Ace. "So he's somebody, I'm sure you would agree, you would want to get out of tennis, because he is a danger because he grooms young players… If it wasn't for him you may never be where you are today.". Karim Hossam was one of the best young tennis players in the world. It first came up in April 2007, when the French magazine Le Point reported on a rumor that the 21-year-old Gasquet was having an affair with 46-year-old married businessman Arnaud Lagardere. It was inside a modest hotel room in Tunisia in June 2017 that Karim Hossam's tennis career started to unravel. Murray breaks serve for the first time. Or wildly idealistic. Fourth set: Gasquet leads 7-5, 6-3, 6-7 (7-3) 1-0Back to normality. Game with serve. Then he collapses to 4-3. But he also thought that if he had more money it would be easier to advance his career. World ranking: 27. Uh... huh. No help there, my friend. The Frenchman's levels have dropped. It's no use as Gasquet serves that game out brilliantly. And then having to go home in a taxi.I would imagine. "The TIU are ineffective because their processes are inefficient and slow. Charges in to save another. The player responds, "Score is not important. Challenge. Promising. He's the fitter of the two right now. This a real ripper. A wide ace from Gasquet. I didn't really lie about anything, I was open," he tells them. They receive evidence about someone and their investigation is ended two years later," he says. He is in a hurry. Therefore, while waiting for the new hearing, Richard will continue to prepare for his return to competition in the next few weeks." Solid.Gary Naylor asks: "How much does Murray want it? A really awful service game. He looks angular and awkward, like a gangly teenager. Instead he was sucked into one of the biggest match-fixing rings yet discovered in a sport riddled with corruption. Uproar. Murray looks a little loose at the end here, spendthrift with his many chances to break. He's beaten Murray the two times they've played. First set: Gasquet 4-3 MurrayTHE. Starts to volley a bit too. Third set: Gasquet leads 7-5, 6-3, 3-3Murray is out there with a teeny little greasy Pepperami stick in his hand. Some early quite-right-too good sense from Suzanne Elliot: "What makes you think the women who wave "red white and blue tea towels around" only watch tennis for two weeks a year?". The figures were always in dollars. You get 2,500." Woooshhh. Fourth set: Gasquet leads 7-5, 6-3, 6-7 (7-3) 2-3The G-Diddy is back. And pow. Gasquet has only won a handful of matches in the past couple of months, but is looking in relatively good nick here. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. VideoThe dentist who helped a koala to walk. Quite right. The documents the BBC has seen implicate more than 20 players, most of them from North Africa, in either directly fixing matches or failing to tell the authorities when they were approached. 30-40! Who knows. His hat is still the wrong way round. Go. He's pumped. And he hasn't got an entire Bon Jovi concert of squiffy Surrey housewives yelling at him while he's trying to remember what it was his visualisation technique adviser told him about walking down the path, opening the door (or was it unlocking the door and then opening it? He's just got more shots right now. The gamblers behind this would have made much more than $1,000, and would have bet on other matches too, often making multiple bets on one match. Andy Murray will return to singles competition for the first time since January when he faces Richard Gasquet at the Cincinnati Masters on Monday. You can't call him off. In the end, word gets out the match is fixed and the gambler backs off. A woeful short drop shot from Murray. Everybody's a bit shaken up after that. He punches an imaginary adversary on the the floor Brett Lee-style. The crowd's getting its money's worth all right. First set: Gasquet leads 1-0Gasquet holds to 15, finishing it off with a lovely backhand winner. Some agreement from Richard Finch: "Thank goodness someone has finally said it. More on Jingoism. Second set: Gasquet leads 7-5, 5-3 Murray holds serve well again. To his credit, though, he really is fighting to the end. "We're talking figures around about half a million euros.". There is grit in evidence. Murray was defeated by Richard Gasquet 6-4 6-4 in Cincinnati on Monday in what was the Scot's first competitive singles match since hip resurfacing surgery at the end of January. Girls. Hworf. Video, Death sentence over beheading of French tourist, Uber drivers are workers not self-employed, Alps hiker survives seven icy nights after fall, Taoiseach says nine more weeks of restrictions, Huawei turns to pig farming as smartphone sales fall, a BBC News and BuzzFeed investigation revealed suspected illegal betting. In 2018 an independent review panel looked into the integrity of tennis after a BBC News and BuzzFeed investigation revealed suspected illegal betting. On Monday Murray played his first singles match since career-saving hip surgery in January - a 6-4 6-4 loss to France's Richard Gasquet in Cincinnati. Princess Latifa 'being cared for' - Dubai royals. The documents seen by the BBC have been sent to the Tennis Integrity Unit, and the whistleblower who contacted the BBC is critical of the unit's response. A beautiful, lofted, sliced, making-room-on-the-run backhand down the line drops just inside. !He says. "Corrr!" The files the BBC has seen show that one of Karim's contacts was an Armenian. But the confidential files the BBC has seen show he continued to try to corrupt the sport. Holds serve to love with a trace of his old zing. Belts down some frankly lunatic wildman serves. Not a twitch. Oh dear. So he continued taking money to lose, and before long he was also acting as a fixer, the middleman between gamblers and players. A drop shot, then a dream of a lob. He still da man. He looks strong still. Wimbledon, after Roger and Rafa. He looked set to play at the biggest tournaments, with the top players of the game. It added that it couldn't comment on ongoing investigations as "public disclosure would inevitably alert suspects and allow credible evidence to be discarded or destroyed". Sigh. Second set: Gasquet leads 7-5, 1-0 Gasquet still keeping a high first serve percentage. That's all from me for now. He's like the Terminator. First set: 1-1Murray fires off three strong first serves in a row. "Having that insider knowledge of people involved in match-fixing in a specific sport particularly tennis… you can really make some fairly decent money," says Fred Lord, director for anti-corruption at the International Centre of Sport Security in Qatar. Oh dear. Gasquet wins the second set 6-3; Gasquet leads by two sets to love Murray gets to 0-30 on Gasquet's serve but some timely volleying and a fizzing ace from the Frenchman turns it round. The dentist who helped a koala to walk. Now now. Still a long way back though.The crowd are still a bit quiet here. Why does the England football team always start as joint 3rd favourites for every international tournament?". Quiz of the week: What do you know about royal babies? It said the Tennis Integrity Unit had a backlog of cases and that there was a "tsunami" of corruption within the sport. After Kyrgios inflamed sensitivities at Wimbledon with a world-class sulk after losing to Richard Gasquet, he all but self-immolated on a bonfire of his own vanity in Montreal last week. Easy service game with one booming overhead winner. To. That's French for choker isn't it?" He's not moving his feet well. Great forehand winner. He spent the next four years helping to fix dozens of matches in Egypt, Tunisia and Nigeria, typically earning $200 for a $1,000 fix. In July 2018 Karim Hossam was banned for life. Game Murray. The Inside Story of Match-Fixing in Tennis, at 20:00 GMT on. A superb Andy Murray beats Richard Gasquet in straight sets to move into the quarter-finals of Wimbledon. there's definitely an amusing headline in this somewhere. Gah. Don't write him off just yet. He is reassured by Hossam: "Most important thing is you drop the set then win." Excitement builds over new Mars rover images, Harry and Meghan not returning to Royal Family, The country treating psychosis without drugs. Spinning his first serve when he should be humping it. "We feel very strongly that if he's done that to you he's probably done it to other people and he's probably still doing it," one of the investigators tells him. Richard Gasquet described how a lot of players have been unlucky to play in the same era as Roger Federer and the Big 3. And two break points. Gasquet is imploding here There's a couple of desperation aces, a crazed charge to the net and still some zip in that backhand, but his feet are like two dangly dead things stuffed with old newspaper right now. Or whatever. 6-5 GASQUET – Thiem is using the angles very well. On that occasion he was facing one of the world's best players, Richard Gasquet - then ranked ninth in the world, some 300 places above Hossam - and he replied: "I'm playing Gasquet, I'm not here to sell a match.". Whimpers. Gasquet is powering him off the court with four games in a row.Why does Murray even bother with the drop shots? While married, Judy and William had their first son Jamie in 1986. First set: Gasquet 5-5 MurrayA-Mu kicks off by peeling off, unfurling, unwrapping and generally unsheathing a wonderful forehand winner. Still only 20, the young Egyptian player was the great hope for North African tennis. It is pitch black now by the way. After the interview ends he messages his younger brother, Youssef, who is also a professional tennis player. Gasquet wins first set 7-5 MurrayGah! How about A-Mu. Gasquet slathers down three more clean first serves. Oh, yes. Third set: Gasquet leads 7-5, 6-3, 5-6Gasquet holds with some difficulty after many a deuce.Murray is pushing Gasquet here. Can you hear me Surrey?! Ace. Gasquet wipes a towel over his sweaty face and comes away with little bits of white fluff attached to his cheeks and chin. Fourth set: Gasquet leads 7-5, 6-3, 6-7 (7-3) 2-4Murray sashays jauntily through another service game, finishing it off at 40-30 with a whomping smash volley. Jingoism update. Probably just me. Oddly, he's almost got the momentum for the tie-break.It's tight and tense out there. Along with wooden bats and lemon barley water. He needs a surge. The BBC contacted Karim Hossam to ask him about these messages and his contact with other players but he didn't respond. Come on. Then saves another break point by the seat of his pants. Wap. Where has the rippling, booming Gazza of the first two sets gone. … Credit to his opponent for that. Fifth set: Murray 4-2 Gasquet Ace. Whap! ), smelling the flowers, etc etc. Join the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter. Then he somehow blusters his way through a succession of deuces and nicks the game. He is consistently whooping out there. Something a bit like that probably. Gasquet loops a moon ball out. He's defending from the back. Hossam couldn't keep it to himself so he told his father, who had helped to finance his career. He's got a Brian Lara-style backhand. That's what this match sounds like. Yes, it's two-all. He's frighteningly tumescent as he zips to 40-15 on serve, Gasquet trudging about like swamp-dweller. Well well well. But it conceded, "there is a significant amount of work to do. Plonked limp-wristed into the net! Yells. Why wear it at all? And who would have thought it. Third set: Gasquet leads 7-5, 6-3, 2-2Gasquet serves out to love. He'd played at the Australian Open and the French Open, but the ITF (International Tennis Federation) tournament at Sharm was one of the many around the world where thousands of lower-ranked players try to scrape a living. Third set: Dimitrov 6-3, 6-2, 5-4 Gasquet* (*denotes server) Hats off to Richard Gasquet. But doesn't this seem just a little odd, given that he's trying to reach the quarters for the first time today? But he's OK. Another failed line challenge. In addition to reaching the #1 world ranking as a junior, he won his first ATP title on his 19th birthday shortly after becoming the youngest French player ever to beat … Right. As a non-jingoist, I've since stuck to Wimbledon dog-track. Murray just needs to keep going. "I gave a lot of information. © 2021 BBC. That was made to look very easy. They were investigators for the Tennis Integrity Unit, which probes corruption within the game, and they suspected Karim had been fixing matches. Is it too late? A slightly iffy service game towards the end of the set. In August 2018 he has a long conversation with a player to whom he offers $3,500 to lose a set by a specific score. says Murray, coming on like a first-serving Bernard Bresslaw. Then he double faults to give a break point, which Gasquet nails with an overhead.That was really poor. Intrigued by the offer, the player replies, "How much to lose?" How is Murray going to break this man? And he needs Gasquet to suffer a temporary fit of amnesia too. Ping. Then a successful one. I've been away. He told the investigators, "I just wanted to try it because I never tried it… I thought this guy was actually like lying to me… I didn't know that betting existed." 1-0 THIEM – The first point of the match went on for 24 shots. Legal note: not all grey-haired people in SW19 "cut down" immigrants and foxes. shouts Murray. Yes, he shanks a smash quite horribly at 30-0. Gasquet returns into the net. Fizz. But he's still very close. The sport's governing body, the International Tennis Federation, told the BBC: "We are committed to protecting the integrity of tennis and putting in place the necessary measures to do that". After this first offence, Hossam said, he tried for a while to avoid doing it again. Him. Wins it with a lovely forehand pass from the back of the court. But Gasquet was on it from the start and The Virtuoso rolled to a confident victory to make the perfect start to his UTS2 campaign. "I just couldn't afford playing any more and like my dad was paying for me, and then my dad has to pay for my brother as well, and then I wasn't getting any income," he says, the transcript shows. Like J-Lo. says Tom Walling. Why indeed? Read about our approach to external linking. [Swigs gin]Cam orn. He needs a lot more of that. Top stuff from A-Mu, who'll feel it tomorrow. Not yet it isn't. 30-30 Murray's got a taste for finishing it now quick smart. One cheeky dink. Fifth set: Murray 4-3 Gasquet Extraordinary scenes in the gloaming. That's what he's saying.Gary Naylor's had his dictionary out. You lose first set then win the match. Murray saves one. He's making "errrgh" noises. Is he really there? There has been a low-level pressure from Murray throughout this set. Gasquet holds his nerve brilliantly: two inspired volley winners to see it out. Nigel Wilson asks: "Why has this Wimbledon been dominated by talk of "weapons", "big weapons" and "potent weapons"? We should be so lucky. Murray holds sulkily, albeit with some lovely surprise volleying. Nuances? If (say, for example) it's Gasquet, we'll have a right old chest-rippling beefcake muscle Mary parade of hunnging and wanging and grrgling on our hands. I SAID CAN YOU HEAR ME SURREY?!! He's got him on a stick right now. How much does climate change cost US economy? "Can I be the 1835th person to … "Wimbledon will be much more watchable without Murray and the pathetic warblings of the Mail and so-called 'quality' papers. What is it French for, anyway? On the cover of the French Tennis magazine at aged 9, he was long touted as an up-and-coming future great of the game. The fact is, Murray is up against it here and will have to really turn it on to get to the last eight. He's almost charcoal. A fusillade of desperation-stakes ground strokes. and he is told, "Lose for 3,000 my friend." Cross court. He has not let up here for a second. Fourth set: Gasquet leads 7-5, 6-3, 6-7 (7-3) 1-2A break for Murray! First set: Gasquet 3-3 MurrayMurray holds to 15. First on my list is Richard Gasquet, probably because I've watched his generation of tennis more than any other and seen him lose matches from winnable positions time after time. Video. First set: Gasquet leads 2-1Gasquet has his cap on backwards. 30...40. It works for our footy team, does it not? Well-grooved serving from Murray, takes it to 15. Really shocking. Then another one! Mon 30 Jun 2008 05.38 EDT Murray is clinging on with the painful pink part of his littlest finger nail. John McEnroe meanwhile insists that Murray is "giving complete strangers the fist". Richard Gasquet Born: 18/6/86. But Gasquet surges to close it out. Karim had hoped there would be some benefit for him in co-operating with the Tennis Integrity Unit, and seems disappointed that he has got nothing out of it. © 2021 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. PUMPING. Some early disagreement from Ben Hendy: "I have to disagree with you when you say that it's only "tennis that brings out the dunder-headed jingoism in the British". So what better time for some astute observation form Oliver Pattenden: "Murray's got a little Highland spring water logo on his shirt, why doesn't he just go the whole way and make it Walker's shortbread and Famous Grouse?"Mmm. And a bigger serve. Does he have a sensitive neck? They might be following the tour around the world. Days after he was interviewed by the Tennis Integrity Unit, Karim Hossam was provisionally banned from playing tennis. Pyow. Like making an inappropriate sarcastic remark at a dinner party that falls completely flat. Then Gasquet weirdly cracks and serves a double fault. ", That wasn't how it turned out. Some silly shots. Second set: Gasquet leads 7-5, 2-0 Murray fans, look away now. Dubai's royal family says she is "being cared for at home" after she accused them of holding her hostage. Murray will have horrible nightmares tonight about being thrashed brutally with a sweat-soaked dinky white backwards cap. Photo Credit. Third set: Gasquet leads 7-5, 6-3, 1-2Murray yelling to himself again as he struggles through another service game. He's ablaze. France's elite confronted by sexual abuse scandals. Wins it with some strong strokes from the back of the court.One second serve there was timed at 89mph. Where are you? Karim Hossam had already won the tournament four times when he arrived to compete there again in 2013. Judy and William got married in 1980; however, the couple separated and went on to divorce in 2005. He's serving like a drain here. Gasquet is wielding a vast, bloody shank of Aberdeen Angus.He is putting his salami rapier to cunning use at times. The investigators ask if he will give evidence against the player who first corrupted him. When the other player agrees to this, Hossam makes sure he understands his instructions: "So you will lose the first set then win the match. Nice variation on his ground strokes here. By the time of his final interview, in January 2018, Karim Hossam says he has been reduced to coaching children. We're getting all sorts here already. It depended what the gamblers wanted and what got them the best odds. Good match this. That same day he messaged a fellow player telling him about the ban but vowing, "I am gonna bet even more now.". I didn't realise everybody felt quite so strongly. He's still banging on about it too. In his pocket on a stick. He's got a huge backlift and he gives it a real wang. Why allow players this chance?". Fourth set: Gasquet leads 7-5, 6-3, 6-7 (7-3) 2-5Another break. First set: Gasquet 3-2 MurrayMurray's fallen on his face. Second set: Gasquet leads 7-5, 5-2 "Come on!" Easy in the end for Murray though. In! Seems to be. Some real in-your-face stingers from Gasquet here. Posted at 18:15 8 Jul 2015 18:15 8 Jul 2015 Post update Where are you? Brrr. Some scorching ground strokes from Gasquet there. Murray holds on, but that ball is getting a vicious leathering from both players. Played at a small tennis club next to a shopping mall, there is a smattering of spectators and the prize money for the whole tournament is $15,000 (£11,500) - about a quarter of the sum made by a first-round loser at Wimbledon. Chill out, G-Dawg. Murray changes tack and starts to volley a bit. Third set: Gasquet leads 7-5, 6-3, 5-6High jinks here. Karim Hossam was preparing for a match when a player he didn't know well approached him.
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