The Tennis Integrity Unit, an independent institution which has the potential matchfixing in tennis and examine, in the first three months of the year, a 38 wedstrijdwaarschuwingen received. That is nearly double that of the same period, in 2019, when the 21-alerts, while a record low was recorded since the start of the measurement at the end of 2015.
“The increase in the number of games in the first quarter of 2020, it is an indication that the lower levels of professional tennis, and purposely have been targeted by cheats, at a time when the sport is due to the coronapandemie has evolved in the direction of have a break”, says the TIU on Wednesday.
As the organization is concerned that the problem will be even greater, it will be once the tennis takes over, it will, in co-operation with the tennisbonden, an information campaign will be developed for the players, the officials, and toernooidirecties to make them aware of the problem.
Of the 38 reports between January and the 22nd of march, there were six from the Challengertour to the second stage, the ATP and the WTA), and in 32 out of the ITF circuit (sixteen for men and sixteen for women).
The TIU explained, in this period, the three players (Jonathan Kanar, João Olavo Soares de Souza, and Patrick Keane) is an effective sanction.
