A professional tennis player received a frightening message from a sports bettor who threatened to go after him if he did not win a recent match at the Thionville Open event on the ATP Challenger Tour.

Arthur Bouquier from France, the No. 219-ranked men’s player in the world, published the message on his Instagram, originally in French.

After Tennis World translated the message, it revealed a deteriorating diatrib of how the bettor needed Bouquier to win a match against lower ranked Florian Broska from France. If Bouquier did not do that, the conqueror said, “I will come after you.”

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“French tennis is so mediocre right now that French players stick to playing at home to avoid embarrassment abroad,” the message said. “Let me remind you that you don’t achieve much when you leave France – it shows the limits of your tennis game.

“Today you are playing today against Florian Broska, ranked 522, which never wins in the first round. I just hope you make an effort to beat him in 2 sets because I’ve put 2000 euros on you to win in 2 sets.”

The idea of ​​losing the fierce effort caused the enthusiast to threaten Bouquier.

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“I swear if you lose, I will never forgive you,” the message continued with a laughter emoji. “I want to trace you and your family just to hurt you, even if it means going to jail. Maybe too, because if I lose these 2000 euros, I will be on the streets, so my life will not make sense anymore – I might as well spend my days in prison.”

To make it worse, Bettor claimed to be in court where Bouquier was scheduled to play his match against Broska.

“I swear on my mother’s life that I will come for you. Right now I am at the Court in Thionville, where you play exactly at 15:20.

“Be careful and these are not empty threats. Good luck.”

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Bouquier labeled ATP Tour, International Tennis Federation (ITF) and Thionville tournament in its post to make them aware of the threats.

Bouquier won his match in two sets, 6-3, 6-4, to move on to the second round of the tournament and there was no incident in Thionville.

Sports betting has led Bettors to reach athletes through direct message on social media platforms and other methods of delivering threats.

Fellow French tennis star Caroline Garcia shared messages she got on the 2024 US Open and said “There are hundreds” she had received before the tournament.

“These are some of the messages I received recently after losing some matches. Just a few of them. There are hundreds,” Garcia wrote on her social media platforms at the time while sharing some messages in her X post she had been given. “And now that they are 30 years old, even though they are still hurting, because at the end of the day I am just a normal girl who works really hard and tries my best, I have tools and have done work to protect me from this hatred. But still this is not ok.

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“Social media platforms do not prevent it, despite the fact that AI is in a very advanced position. Tournaments and the sport continue to collaborate with bets that continue to attract new people to unhealthy bets.

“Don’t misunderstand me, I’m not saying they should be banned as people are free to do what they want with their money. But maybe we shouldn’t promote them. If someone decided to say this thing to me in public, he could have legal problems. So why online are we free to do something? Shouldn’t we consider anonymity online?”