Gibbs calls out haters (gamblers) on Twitter

Nicole Gibbs is quite done. She has had enough; not mournful unforced errors or woe-inducing line calls, no. On the heels of a match loss, she faced down a series of tweets (Warning: contains vile language)

both hateful and regrettable.

That is, if people had consciences.

Or perhaps better said: That is, if people didn't have gambling problems. Why anyone outside of bona fide investors or sponsors places money on tennis players, so often among the most mercurial of athletic performers, is anyone's guess. But gamble they do. And these so-called fans, these prickly misnomers, once their chosen players have "underperformed" according only to where they have put their money, let said players have it.

Madison Keys and more stars of the sport have pulled back the electronic curtain on this issue recently. It's not a problem going away anytime soon, but it's one that readily invites more regulation, more oversight.

Fellow players (Keys included) reacted to Gibbs' post.

Most players practice a different kind of oversight by ignoring such detractors. But when pros call such trolls out of Twitter's darkness and into the proverbial light, it's well worth noting.

Let these ATP and WTA competitors continue to do their jobs to the best of their abilities over 10 to 11 months. It stands to reason that these resident trolls can't do anything well for that long.

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