Got something to say or just want fewer pesky ads? Join us... 😊

Tennis match fixing: Evidence of suspected match fixing revealed



TomandJerry

Well-known member
Oct 1, 2013
12,323
Secret files exposing evidence of widespread suspected match fixing at the top level of world tennis, including at Wimbledon, can be revealed by the BBC and BuzzFeed News.

Over the last decade 16 players who have ranked in the top 50 have been repeatedly flagged to the tennis integrity unit over suspicions they have thrown matches.

All of the players, including winners of Grand Slam titles, were allowed to continue competing.

The cache of documents passed to the BBC and Buzzfeed News include the findings of an investigation set up in 2007 by the organising body, the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).

In subsequent years there were repeated alerts sent to the TIU about a third of these players. None of them was disciplined by the TIU.

A group of whistle blowers inside tennis, who wanted to remain anonymous, recently passed the documents on to the BBC and Buzzfeed News. We contacted Mark Phillips, one of the betting investigators in the 2007 enquiry, who told the BBC they discovered there was repeated suspicious betting activity about a clear group.

"There was a core of about 10 players who we believed were the most common perpetrators that were at the root of the problem."

He has never spoken publicly before about the material he gathered, which he said was as powerful as any he had seen in over 20 years as a betting investigator."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/35319202
:eek:
 






Doc Lynam

I hate the Daily Mail
Jun 19, 2011
7,347
I find it hard to feel any connection with tennis, due to it shutting out generations of kids certainly in this country who couldn't afford to play beacuse of the fees!
 


GT49er

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Feb 1, 2009
49,186
Gloucester
Tennis would certainly be one of the easier sports in which to fix a match - hard to detect, too.
 


Albion and Premier League latest from Sky Sports


Top
Link Here