Mats Wilander Signs for Expekt.com as Tennis Ambassador


GZIRA, Malta, June 8 /PRNewswire/ --     Former World No. 1 and seven-time Grand Slam winner Mats Wilander has
signed as tennis ambassador for online gaming company Expekt.com.

"I will do analysis and predictions on the big tournaments and be the
face of Expekt.com in tennis, I am really looking forward to this," says
Wilander.

Mats Wilander, who today is a big TV profile with Eurosport and current
Davis Cup captain for Sweden, will start to work for Expekt.com at Wimbledon.

Recently, Expekt.com signed poker legend and world champion Scotty Nguyen
as poker ambassador and now Mats Wilander has joined the online gaming
company.

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"It will be a new step for me going into the gaming industry and it
will be interesting and challenging to give my view on the matches and to
find the winners at Expekt.com," continues Mats Wilander.

For some time, Expekt.com has worked with famous football names as 
ambassadors in their big markets, such as Zibi Boniek in Poland, Fredi 
Bobic in Germany and Glenn Strömberg in Sweden.

"We will have plenty of surprises coming up and our customers, they will
for example be able to play tennis against Mats Wilander when they take part
in a contest during the summer.

"We are preparing for an exciting summer and year for our customers with
Mats Wilander onboard. We are truly proud to have signed him," says Dan
Vikman, PR Manager at Expekt.com.

Mats Wilander won seven Grand Slam titles between 1982 and 1988 and was
World No. 1 in 1988. He is one of only four players who have won Grand Slam
singles titles on grass, hard and clay courts together with Rafael Nadal,
Andre Agassi and Jimmy Connors. Wilander won Australian Open twice when it
was played on grass.

In 2002, Wilander was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of
Fame.

Mats Wilander
    Date of birth: 22 August 1964
    Place of birth: Växjö, Sweden
    Height: 1.82 m
    Weight: 77 kg
    Turned pro 1981
    Retired 1996
    Career prize money: US$7,976,256
    Singles career record: 571-222
    Career titles: 33
    Highest ranking: No. 1 (12 September 1988)
    Grand Slam single titles: 7
    Australian Open Winner 1983, 1984, 1988
    French Open Winner 1982, 1985, 1988
    US Open Winner 1988
    Wimbledon Quarter-finalist 1987, 1988, 1989



About Expekt.com

Expekt.com was founded in 1999 and is an online gaming company with its
main office in Malta. Expekt.com has licenses in Austria and Malta and is one
of Europe's leading gaming companies offering sports betting, poker, casino,
bingo and games. Expekt.com offers its services in 23 languages through
http://www.expekt.com and has got more than 1.5 million registered customers
worldwide.

For more information, please contact: Press and PR Manager Dan Vikman - 
Tel: +356-9911-2020, E-mail: dan.vikman@expekt.com.

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