Sports Thread #3 For 8/29/09: Tennis No Joining The NFL In Twitter Paranoia

At least there's no court coaching to worry about for this to happen:

Watch what you tweet.

That’s the message tennis authorities are delivering as the U.S. Open gets set to start Monday, telling players and their entourages to be careful about what they post on the social networking site Twitter.

Signs are being posted in the players’ lounge, locker rooms and referee’s office at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center with the header: “Important. Player Notice. Twitter Warning.”

One player who expresses a reaction to how asinine nature of this rule is Andy Roddick

Andy Roddick, for one, is not a fan of the warning. In a tweet Friday night, the 2003 U.S. Open champion wrote that he thinks it’s “lame the US Open is trying to regulate our tweeting.. I understand the on-court issue but not sure they can tell us if we can’t do it on our own time … we’ll see.”

He added in another tweet: “I definitely respect the rule about inside info and on the court, but you would seriously have to be a moron to send ‘inside info’ through a tweet.”

But that integrity of the game and the betting is the main concern

Told of Roddick’s comments, tournament spokesman Chris Widmaier said, “We agree with Mr. Roddick that it would be ‘moronic’ to provide what might be construed as insider information. However, in the age of new media, it is imperative to ensure the absolute integrity of the game.”

Yeah, like the integrity of the game was damaged at Wimbledon?

Betting maybe will get factor if say, someone sneaks a phone in about a player's last minute injury. But what can tennis really do about it, or contain it? Information will get out no matter what, especially in this day and age.

You can only help but to contain, because you surly cannot stop it at all.