{"id":347068,"date":"2025-12-14T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/347068\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T08:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:00:20","slug":"caroline-garcia-says-no-to-tennis-gambling-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/347068\/","title":{"rendered":"Caroline Garcia Says No To Tennis Gambling \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former world No.4 Caroline Garcia has taken a form stance against tennis gambling. The Frenchwoman, who retired from the sport in 2025, turned down a lucrative gambling sponsorship for her podcast, \u201cTennis Insider Club\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Pro-Player-Gear-610X150-03.jpg\" alt=\"tennis express pro player gear\" class=\"wp-image-54451\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"  data-\/><\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n<p>She explained her reasoning in an Instagram post this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s why we turned down a $270,000 podcast sponsorship from a betting company,\u201d she wrote. <br \/>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t an easy \u201cno,\u201d especially right after retiring from tennis. But we want to build a platform where players feel completely safe to be honest, vulnerable, and open about anything, without pressure or distraction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gambling has made its way into the sport via sponsorship deals in recent years. One can\u2019t even get through watching a set of a match on Tennis Channel without being fed live betting odds. But gambling is also responsible for the lion\u2019s share of abuse that players absorb on social media.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s nice to know that Garcia is willing to forego the money in the name of the sanctity of the sport she loves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former world No.4 Caroline Garcia has taken a form stance against tennis gambling. The Frenchwoman, who retired from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-347068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}