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Justin Gimelstob should have been re-elected later this month. (AP)
Justin Gimelstob announced his resignation from the ATP board just over a week after failing to plead the offense of badault for badaulting an old friend.
The former professional tennis player, who also worked as a coach and journalist, released Wednesday on Facebook a statement that "it is clear that I have become a significant burden and distraction" for the tennis and therefore do not deserve to be this position of influence ".
Gimelstob should have been re-elected later this month. He is on the board of directors who has overseen the men's tennis circuit for 11 years.
The 42-year-old American was sentenced on April 22 to three years of probation, 60 days of community service and one year of anger management clbades for what prosecutors have termed an attack. Randall Kaplan by Gimelstob while they were cheating or treating their children. in Los Angeles for Halloween in 2017.
In a statement to the court, Kaplan said that Gimelstob had repeatedly hit him and threatened to kill him. Kaplan's wife, Madison, recounted that she was terrified when she witnessed the badault.
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