Wimbledon comes under match-fixing cloud
In a revelation that is bound to send shockwaves through the tennis world, 18 players competing in this year's Wimbledon are suspected to have thrown their matches for money at The All England Club on previous occasions.
By PTI |
LONDON: In a revelation that is bound to send shockwaves through the tennis world, 18 players competing in this year's Wimbledon are suspected to have thrown their matches for money at The All England Club on previous occasions.
According to a sensational report in 'The Times', eight Wimbledon matches, four of which happen to be men's singles games from last year, are suspected to have been fixed by professional betting syndicates.
The matches are named in a dossier compiled by leading bookmaking companies, which keep track of suspect betting patterns.
The dossier says five of the losing players from the suspected eight Wimbledon games are in this year's men's singles competition, which begins tomorrow.
18 players competing in this year's tournament are in the suspects list, dominated by Russians, Spaniards, Argentines, Italians and Austrians.
The dossier has based its findings on the sudden change in the betting patterns for the suspect matches.
The report comes as a further blow to the sport's credibility which is battling corruption charges in tournaments of the stature of Davis Cup.
The dossier states that betting network is being run by Russian and eastern European gamblers.
"If you look at a tournament, you might see one match for 23,000 (in betting turnover), one for 27,000, one for 36,000 and one for 4.5m. It doesn't take a genius to work out that something is going on in the last one," 'The Times' quoted an official claiming to have access to the dossier which lists 140 suspect matches from tournaments around the world.
According to a sensational report in 'The Times', eight Wimbledon matches, four of which happen to be men's singles games from last year, are suspected to have been fixed by professional betting syndicates.
The matches are named in a dossier compiled by leading bookmaking companies, which keep track of suspect betting patterns.
The dossier says five of the losing players from the suspected eight Wimbledon games are in this year's men's singles competition, which begins tomorrow.
18 players competing in this year's tournament are in the suspects list, dominated by Russians, Spaniards, Argentines, Italians and Austrians.
The dossier has based its findings on the sudden change in the betting patterns for the suspect matches.
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The report comes as a further blow to the sport's credibility which is battling corruption charges in tournaments of the stature of Davis Cup.
The dossier states that betting network is being run by Russian and eastern European gamblers.
"If you look at a tournament, you might see one match for 23,000 (in betting turnover), one for 27,000, one for 36,000 and one for 4.5m. It doesn't take a genius to work out that something is going on in the last one," 'The Times' quoted an official claiming to have access to the dossier which lists 140 suspect matches from tournaments around the world.
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