Match-fixing bribe offers are so rampant in pro tennis virtually every player receives an offer to fix a match, says Israeli No. 2 Amir Weintraub.

The 30-year-old Weintraub says match-fixers often approach players new to the tour with offers to throw matches.

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“At the beginning, people come to you, week in, week out,” Weintraub told Israel's Channel 2 in comments published by The Times of Israel. “Especially in countries like Russia, wherever.

"After a week, two weeks, three weeks, when you say ‘No, no, no,’ they stop.”

The world No. 222 revealed that there is “not a single player,” from the lowest-ranked, “all the way to the world’s top ranked player, like (Novak) Djokovic, who hasn’t been approached.”

Weintraub, who is scheduled to play Sweden's Elias Ymer in Israel's Davis Cup Group I Europe/Africa Relegation Playoff tomorrow, said match-fixers typically approach players asking "Are you interested in not feeling well in a certain match?"

Weintraub's comments came a couple of weeks after his Facebook post where he pointed out the vast disparity between millionaire players at the top of the sport and the lower-ranked players struggling to survive on the Futures and Challenger-level circuits leave the sport vulnerable to corruption.

"The bottom line is we the players outside the first 100 are pawns for the top ranked players and we are disposable, as simple as that," Weintraub wrote on Facebook.  "To be a tennis player is a financial loss, period. If you are not in the Top 100 you lose no matter how you roll it.”



Photo credit: Amir Weintraub Facebook