Online gambling is simply a hard concept for the business world to digest.  Perhaps it is because there are a lot of potential misuses for online casinos and the like.  If there was a hierarchy of acceptance it online poker would be the most accepted, then online casinos, but last and apparently most despised is online sports betting.  Controversy after controversy has arisen as a result online sports betting.

The latest scandal involves four professional tennis players.  The quartet has been accused of have been suspended from the sport for suspicion of involvement in an online gambling scam.

Of course, the players are outraged.  They are protesting the suspension and have accused the Association of Tennis Professionals of using them as scapegoats so that they can appear to be making headway in their anti-corruption program.

The players have not denied betting on matches, but that is not an illegal action.  They claim to have on bet for small stakes.  A further accusation from the players is that the Interwetten sportsbook sold their gambling information to the Association of Tennis Professionals in exchange for a sponsorship deal.

Ever since the match up between Nikolay Daveydenko and Martin Vassallo Arguello back in August of 2007, the Association of Tennis Professionals has kept a close eye on the potential of gambling affecting the integrity of matches.  Nothing was ever proven in this case but a lot of suspicion was raised due to the uncommonly high betting activity around such and under-publicized match. 

European sports leagues use online casinos to track abnormal betting patterns in order to prevent corruption.