Alessio Di Mauro believes he's being used as a scapegoat for the match-fixing scandals surrounding tennis and that his nine-month ban for betting is too severe.
"The sentence is too harsh," Di Mauro was quoted as saying in Sunday's Gazzetta dello Sport. "I made a silly mistake and I'm being punished excessively. I could go down in history as the only player banned for betting in tennis."
On Saturday, Di Mauro became the first player sanctioned under the ATP's new anti-corruption rules.
The 124th-ranked Italian was also fined US$60,000 (euro41,000) after being found guilty of making 120 bets with an online bookmaker from Nov. …
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