News Tennis rocked by shocking match-fixing claims!

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Over the last decade, 16 players ranked in the top 50 have been repeatedly flagged to the Tennis Integrity Unit, over suspicions they have thrown matches, the BCC and BuzzFeed News have claimed.

The documents show the inquiry found betting syndicates in Russia, northern Italy and Sicily making hundreds of thousands of pounds betting on games which investigators thought to be fixed. Three of these games were at Wimbledon
All of the players, including winners of Grand Slam titles, were allowed to continue competing. Eight of the players are due to play in the Australian Open which starts on Monday, they added.

The BBC and BuzzFeed News said they had not named the players because without access to their phone, bank and computer records it was not possible to determine whether they took part in match-fixing.

The TIU did not immediately respond to a request from Reuters for comment.

The BBC and BuzzFeed News quoted Nigel Willerton, director of the TIU, as saying: "All credible information received by the TIU is analysed, assessed, and investigated by highly experienced former law-enforcement investigators."

Tennis rocked by shocking match-fixing claims! - Rediff.com Sports
 
Technoglitch

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World tennis was rocked on Monday by allegations that the game's authorities have failed to deal with widespread match-fixing, just as the Australian Open, the first grand slam tournament of the year, kicked off in Melbourne.

Tennis authorities rejected reports by the BBC and online BuzzFeed News, which said 16 players who have been ranked in the top 50 had been repeatedly flagged to the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) over suspicions they had thrown matches in the past decade.

Eight of those players were taking part in the Australian Open, the BBC and BuzzFeed News said.

The media reports, which follow corruption scandals in world soccer and athletics, created a stir at the event at Melbourne Park, with players expressing surprise at the allegations.

"When I'm playing, I can only answer for me, I play very hard, and every player I play seems to play hard," women's world number one Serena Williams told reporters.

"If that's going on, I don't know about it."

Men's world number seven Kei Nishikori of Japan said he had not heard of any incidence of match-fixing.


World tennis hit by match-fixing reports, authorities back integrity unit| Reuters
 
Sanjeev

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But the timing of this article getting published is suspicious if they were knowing about that then why they waited for these many years
 
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