No Live Streaming of Lowest-Tier Events

According to a final report into corruption in tennis, says that neither there should be any live streaming nor display of any scoring data, at the lowest tier of professional tennis.

Also, the Independent Review Panel has recapitulated its view on the betting companies sponsoring tournaments and believes that it should no longer happen. There was also a suggestion in April's interim report about players' appearance fees to be published. This report was a result of the concerns that came up on the issue of betting in tennis. The panel has been impressed with the kind of assistance and cooperation that has been provided to it throughout. The sport's various governing bodies have committed to implementing the recommendations in full, and the panel says it "considers the sport is well-positioned to address the integrity challenges that it faces. The ban to be put on live scoring data was however first proposed for all events that was offered up to $25,000 as the prize money. However after some consultation and discussions, the panel took a decision that it must just apply fees up to $15,000 events, as the problem seems to be significantly greater at its lower level. In current scenario, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) has a contract in place with Sportradar according to which the Swiss based company is allowed to act as the official distributor of all its data. But during the consultation period, Sportradar had an argument over the sale of official data would lead to opening up a black market which needs to be prevented. David Lampitt, who is the managing director group operations of Sportradar, commented that the company had welcomed the decision but with a ban of lower value of $15,000 events. He further added that "However we believe that they could and should have gone further. The panel's approach remains disproportionate". The panel says that ITF must not build any new contract or extend the term of any of the current contract, instead the other governing bodies must compensate it for the loss of vital future revenue. Further as per the report "As yet, the international governing bodies have not established a basis, or even a clear commitment, to provide the funding". The panel, on appearance fees, has already accepted a proposal that mentions that the practical difficulties have been recognized in publishing fees, or in limiting the amount that a tournament must pay.