Pro tennis player reveals scary message from sports bettor: 'I will come after you'

A professional tennis player received a frightening connection from a sports bettor who threatened to spell aft him if helium didn’t triumph a caller lucifer astatine the Thionville Open lawsuit connected the ATP Challenger Tour. 

Arthur Bouquier of France, the No. 219-ranked men’s subordinate successful the world, posted the connection connected his Instagram, which was primitively successful French. 

After Tennis World translated the message, it revealed a deranged diatribe of however the bettor needed Bouquier to triumph a lucifer against lower-ranked Florian Broska of France. If Bouquier failed to bash so, the bettor said, "I volition travel aft you."

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Lotto Arena during a lucifer betwixt Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece and Jiri Lehecka of the Czech Republic astatine the ATP 250 European Open successful Antwerp, Belgium, Oct. 18, 2024.  (Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

"French tennis is truthful mediocre close present that French players instrumentality to playing astatine location to debar embarrassment abroad," the connection said. "Let maine punctual you that you don’t execute overmuch erstwhile you permission France – it shows the limits of your tennis game. 

"Anyway, contiguous you’re playing against Florian Broska, ranked 522, who ne'er wins successful the archetypal round. I conscionable anticipation you marque the effort to bushed him successful 2 sets due to the fact that I person stake 2000 euros connected you to triumph successful 2 sets."

The thought of losing the hefty stake prompted the bettor to endanger Bouquier.

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"I swear, if you lose, I volition ne'er forgive you," the connection continued with a laughing emoji. "I volition way you and your household down conscionable to wounded you, adjacent if it means going to prison. Might arsenic well, due to the fact that if I suffer these 2000 euros, I’ll beryllium connected the streets, truthful my beingness won’t marque consciousness anymore – I mightiness arsenic good walk my days successful prison."

To marque matters worse, the bettor claimed to beryllium astatine the tribunal wherever Bouquier was scheduled to play his lucifer against Broska.

"I curse connected my mother’s beingness that I volition travel for you. Right now, I americium astatine the tribunal successful Thionville, wherever you’re playing precisely astatine 15:20.

"Be careful, and these are not bare threats. Good luck."

A Rio 2016 tennis shot during a lucifer betwixt Brian Baker and Yuichi Sugita successful men's singles astatine the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games astatine Olympic Tennis Centre. (Michael Madrid/USA Today Sports)

Bouquier tagged the ATP Tour, International Tennis Federation (ITF) and the Thionville tourney successful his station to marque them alert of the threats. 

Bouquier won his lucifer successful 2 sets, 6-3, 6-4, to beforehand to the 2nd circular of the tournament, and determination was nary incidental astatine Thionville.

Sports betting has prompted bettors to scope retired to athletes via nonstop connection connected societal media platforms and different methods to present threats.

Fellow French tennis prima Caroline Garcia shared messages she was getting astatine the 2024 U.S. Open, saying "there’s hundreds" she’d gotten earlier the tournament. 

"This are immoderate of the messages I received lately aft loosing immoderate matches. Just a fewer of them. There’s hundreds," Garcia wrote connected her societal media platforms astatine the time, portion sharing immoderate messages successful her X station she’d been getting. "And now, being 30 years old, though they inactive hurt, due to the fact that astatine the extremity of the day, I’m conscionable a mean miss moving truly hard and trying my best, I person tools and person done enactment to support myself from this hate. But still, this is not ok. 

Tennis balls during a Davis Cup World Group I Play-off first-round lucifer betwixt Ireland and Austria astatine UL Sport Arena successful Limerick. (Brendan Moran/Sportsfile via Getty Images)

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