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Umpire Magdi Somat opens up on how the ATP got rid of him

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Why do you think Federer got all at once "surgery" ?! This guy is cash machine for the game. ATP revenue is 3times bigger than Serena' tour. Serena won 8 or 9 GS after she was out of the game with some serious illness and surgeries. Federer was playing without winning and they got to the point to compare Serena to Federer' career. But they know very well that Fed iS the one who generate a lot of money for them. When Fed shut down his 2016 season just before OG they knew the things got serious and they will lose a lot of money. So they needed to please somehow Fed and as we know Del Potro is a client of Team 8. BOOM all at once Del Potro is in F of OG . Then he got a WC for USO. Lol. He beat #1 player and Nadal. I will not be surprised if Dimitrov got something more as well at USO. Just to convince Fed to get back on tour.
 
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Good story. :yeah: Typical European Old Boys' club. :rolleyes:

Didn't know you'd started a new twitter.

 

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Quick. Everyone archive this before the ATP deletes it and kidnaps CK.
 
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Moscarella is the one who threatened to sue me by the way, looks like a strong case of guilty conscience :lol:
 
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I spoke with Somat a long time through Skype and he sent me all kinds of information.
 
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Can't say, similar to the woman the sexual harassment story is mainly about.
 
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I think this has little to do with Arabs vs the West, and more with a certain mediterranean male attitude, if you look at the persons involved and some locations where it happened. And this is reinforced by the traditional chauvinisism in the sports world

There is a huge difference in this respect between for example the US and France. I don't think Dominique Strauss-Kahn would have been arrested in France.

French female ministers decry sexual harassment - BBC News
 
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Asking him to stop was futile. The most offensive and rude incident happened in Gstaad, when the first thing umpire Gianluca Moscarella asked upon entering her office was whether she wanted to join him for sex. She had never met him before. He kept insisting and after asking him why he was acting like that, Moscarella answered, ''You provoked me by having big tits and a big ass.''
anyone else was trying to imagine the conversation with the Moscarella girly voice?
 
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I misunderstood bjurra in my earlier post, by the way. The woman the sexual harassment story is about is not an umpire, she works in an office job.
 
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:hysteric:
 
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:worship:

And Polansky retweeted him, it's only a matter of time before the Big Four do the same, no?

-edit- Bester en Jenkins did as well, great to see players who actually care about this.
 
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Case closed!
 
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She was basically talking shit without knowing anything. A mixture of jealousy and her usual permanent state of butthurt and arrogance.

I just can't stand tennis journalists who take themselves so seriously and have absolutely no sense of humour. You're a tennis journalist for crying out loud, that's only one step above TMZ on a good day. No actual journalist takes you seriously.

I sent her this in response:

 
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