{"id":19777,"date":"2016-01-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/match-fixing-allegations-rock-tennis\/"},"modified":"2016-01-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T00:00:00","slug":"match-fixing-allegations-rock-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/match-fixing-allegations-rock-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Match-fixing allegations rock tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>UPDATE (1:46pm):&nbsp;ATP executive chairman and president Chris Kermode says the organisation rejects any suggestion evidence of tennis match-fixing has been suppressed.<\/h3>\n<p>Kermode was responding to allegations of widespread match-fixing at the top level of tennis released hours before the start of the Australian Open, in a BuzzFeed News and BBC report on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Tennis Integrity Unit and the tennis authorities absolutely reject any suggestion that evidence of match fixing has been suppressed for any reason or isn&#8217;t being thoroughly investigated,&#8221; he told reporters in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While the BBC and BuzzFeed reports mainly refer to events from about 10 years ago, we will investigate any new information and we always do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are so confident that there is nothing in the sport that has been suppressed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are confident that the Tennis Integrity Unit is doing what it can, and tackles this issue very, very seriously.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it will be seen that tennis is in a very, very good place and we are acting accordingly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>EARLIER<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Tennis has been rocked by allegations of widespread match-fixing just hours ahead of the Australian Open.<\/h3>\n<p>Secret files leaked to BuzzFeed News and the BBC allegedly show evidence of match rigging amongst some of the world&#8217;s high-ranking players, including grand slam winners.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, authorities have been repeatedly warned about 16 players ranked in the top 50 who were suspected of throwing matches.<\/p>\n<p>Half of the players are due to play at the first major of the year in Melbourne beginning on Monday and all of the players were allowed to continue competing despite continued warnings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"400\" width=\"700\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/melbourne_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The match-fixing was orchestrated by gambling syndicates in Russia and Italy and involved prominent players and included three matches at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is based on a cache of leaked documents from an enquiry set up by the ATP in 2007 to look into claims of match fixing and suspicious gambling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was a core of about 10 players who we believed were the most common perpetrators that were at the root of the problem,&#8221; Mark Phillips, one of the betting investigators in the enquiry, told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips said the evidence which he gathered was as powerful as any he had seen in over 20 years as a betting investigator.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The evidence was really strong. There appeared to be a really good chance to nip it in the bud and get a strong deterrent out there to root out the main bad apples,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>None of the players involved have been named.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/essendon-guilty-verdict-a-stitch-up-says-graham-cornes\">ESSENDON VERDICT A \u201cSTITCH UP\u201d SAYS CORNESY<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/lifestyle\/man-who-died-alone-in-nursing-home-left-behind-message-for-us-all\">MAN WHO DIED ALONE LEAVES BEHIND HEART-BREAKING MESSAGE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE (1:46pm):&nbsp;ATP executive chairman and president Chris Kermode says the organisation rejects any suggestion evidence of tennis match-fixing has been suppressed. Kermode was responding to allegations of widespread match-fixing at the top level of tennis released hours before the start of the Australian Open, in a BuzzFeed News and BBC report on Monday. &#8220;The Tennis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-19777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Match-fixing allegations rock tennis - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/match-fixing-allegations-rock-tennis\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Match-fixing allegations rock tennis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"UPDATE (1:46pm):&nbsp;ATP executive chairman and president Chris Kermode says the organisation rejects any suggestion evidence of tennis match-fixing has been suppressed. 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