Continued scandal in tennis betting bookmakers in the background. Exceptionally large sums erected on Sunday off the first round of the Australian Open mixed doubles, in which he played Lukasz Kubot in hand with Andrea Hlavackova.
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Polish-Czech pair faced the Lara Arruabarrena and David Marrero and confident – 6: 0, 6: 3 – won this meeting.
It turned out that suddenly, 30 minutes, received more bets than the preceding meeting 12 hours. This aroused suspicion. Authorities Tennis Australia cooperate in this matter with the police and with the TIU is, the organization investigates allegations of fraud in tennis.
Kubot surprised
On Monday Kubot with Hlavackova eliminated in the 1/8 tournament losing to Yung-Jan Chan of Taiwan and Rohan Bopanna of India. At the post-match conference came a crowd of journalists. The talk was of course the events of Sunday.
The setting of the game, or deliberately losing, suspected the Spaniards, because extremely large sums erected to win Polish-Czech pair. And Arruabarrena, and Marrero denied everything. Marrero said that in their game influenced by his leg injury.
The suspect matches first wrote the editors “New York Times”. Adduced expert opinion from gambling, which claims that this is not the first strange encounter with the participation of Marrero.
“We gave it 100 percent,”
We won yesterday. We gave this game 100 percent. We were focused on him, I did not even notice that he or she complained about the injury. Today we lost, but also did everything in our power to advance
Lukasz Kubot
Kubot and Hlavackova were very surprised by the whole thing. Both confessed that they have no reason to believe the bad intentions of their rivals.
– We won yesterday. We gave this game 100 percent. We were focused on him, I did not even notice that he or she complained about the injury. Today we lost, but also did everything in our power to advance – said Kubot. He admitted that he had never seen such interest in the media of his game. – So many journalists did not come to the conference, even when in doubles won the Grand Slam – he said.
I Kubot, and Hlavackova did not want to reveal details of the meeting with the TIU. They confirmed only that it occurred. – If need be, once again I meet with them. I’m open. I am a professional tennis player and on the court and outside of it – said Polish player.
Czech confessed that the conversation was confidential. And that is a matter of her and Luke, what concerned.
Lindahl in custody
This is not the end of the shocking events in tennis. On Monday, former Australian player Nick Lindahl in 2010, occupying 187 place in the list of ATP, admitted in court in Sydney to set the match. This took place in 2013, in a small party – Toowoomba Futures Tournament. The following rozstawionemu player Lindahl had to propose that intentionally lose to him. Then he allegedly phoned an accomplice to the bookmaker has placed in his defeat. At the end he had to instruct him how everything covered up.
Lindahl year in custody. He faces up to 10 years in prison.
Black week of tennis
Vigilance regarding potential match-fixing in tennis has increased significantly since a week ago, the BBC and the portal BuzzFeed published reports. According to these 16 players, which lie in the last decade in the top “50″ of the world ranking, is suspected of collaborating with the mafias bookmakers.
World authorities tennis reject this assumption.
Author: rk / Twis / Source: Reuters, sport.tvn24.pl
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