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Bob in Spain


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Coup Droit wrote:

Wondering where the Tennis Integrity Unit is in all this????

This investigation has clearly been going on for some time.  I had a quick look around the Spanish press and came across this - for Spanish readers.

https://www.elconfidencial.com/espana/2018-10-31/tenistas-espanoles-mafia-armenia-amano-partidos-tenis_1638514/

The article is from 31 Oct last year so this is not news hot off the press.  It does seem however that these were additional arrests and that in the last couple of days there have been several more.

In terms of names, it only really names those senior/retired players who acted as go betweens.  The key figure was Marc Fornell-Mestres.  Another player named is Jordí Marsé Vidri.

But to answer your direct question CD, I have read in another article that the Guardia Civil were acting on information provided to them by the TIU who have been investigating this particular setup since Feb 2015.

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I can't find anywhere the name of the player involved who played US Open last year although a couple of articles mention that this is the case.



-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Thursday 10th of January 2019 04:45:20 PM

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As reported in the mens section in the current weeks French M15+h thread. Another bunch of arrests in France including 2 at the tournament.
Surprised they still provide live scores of the bottom rungs surely removing this would help.

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According to AP news and ESPN and others, they've arrested four:

"They named the players as Jules Okala, 21; Mick Lescure, 25; Yannick Thivant, 31; and Jerome Inzerillo, 28"

There's also a very interesting interview article with Nys about how players keep getting approached to throw matches:

www.lequipe.fr/Tennis/Actualites/Matches-truques-on-m-a-propose-2000-euros-pour-perdre-une-finale-dit-hugo-nys/977998


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Madadman wrote:

As reported in the mens section in the current weeks French M15+h thread. Another bunch of arrests in France including 2 at the tournament.
Surprised they still provide live scores of the bottom rungs surely removing this would help.

 This was supposed to be the main rationale for reorganising the tour and rankings.  The bottom rungs would not be professional and would not be made available to the gambling market.  However, everything else has happened but this.  I know we like the live scores but why make any changes at all if you don't alter the part that caused problems in the first place.



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I think I read something about there are contracts still in place with the betting companies for a year or so which means the live scores have to still be available.

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Thanks Brittak, that makes sense



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Julia Carrot wrote:

Steven on Radio City right now planetradio.co.uk/city-talk/

Talking about the AO draw

 


Having come onto the thread to see what people are saying about the Bressuire 2 (though it now seems to be the Bressuire 4) and found this - I'm not sure whether I'm happy anyone heard me or not (it could certainly have gone worse but it makes you realise how hard it is to avoid platitudes and outright rubbish when you have to say something, especially when you have to finish a sentence once you've started it, even when you realise mid-sentence that you should have started it a different way!) but I'm even less sure why this is on the match-fixing thread - is there something I don't know? confusewink  



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Lee
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Next Tuesday at 20:00, BBC Radio 4's @BBCfileon4 looks at match fixing in tennis.
9:54 AM - 29 Jan 2019
twitter.com/yelnats_eel/status/1090307138327662597




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An interesting read:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-47121681

(By the way, mods, there are three different match fixing threads, all in the general tennis section - could we maybe merge them?)

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Gregory Howe has been making some interesting observations on Twitter while highlighting this BBC expose, on one ocassion he played with an elbow injury and was convinced he could have unintentionally made it very difficult for the fixer to have lost a first set to him.

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Coup Droit wrote:

An interesting read:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-47121681

(By the way, mods, there are three different match fixing threads, all in the general tennis section - could we maybe merge them?)

 All three merged.



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Worth a read:

www.businessinsider.com/whistleblower-spurned-by-players-for-exposing-tennis-crooks-2019-4


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Coup Droit wrote:

Worth a read:

www.businessinsider.com/whistleblower-spurned-by-players-for-exposing-tennis-crooks-2019-4

Hats off to Trungelliti for having the courage to speak out.



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Bob in Spain wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:

Worth a read:

www.businessinsider.com/whistleblower-spurned-by-players-for-exposing-tennis-crooks-2019-4

Hats off to Trungelliti for having the courage to speak out.

 Stakho doesn't feel the same way: https://twitter.com/Stako_tennis/status/1122076519063416832

Unbelievable (and yet not, because it's Stakho) but tennis is being ruined as a whole no



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Stakhovsky should resign from the ATP council. Outrageous

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