Russian tennis gamer apprehended for match-fixing at 2020 French Open

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Russian tennis player arrested for match-fixing at 2020 French Open

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PARIS — A Russian tennis gamer presumed of match-fixing in 2015 has actually been apprehended throughout this year’s French Open, her attorney informed The Associated Press on Friday.

The gamer, 765th-ranked Yana Sizikova of Russia, rejected the claims, according to her attorney, Frederic Belot. He informed The Associated Press that Sizikova wishes to submit a grievance for libel.

The Paris district attorney’s workplace validated to the AP that a “ladies’s worldwide gamer” was in custody, but it did not identify her. She was arrested Thursday night on charges of “sports bribery and organized fraud for acts likely to have been committed in September 2020,” the district attorney’s workplace stated.

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An examination was opened last October by a French authorities system focusing on wagering scams and match-fixing. It has actually formerly dealt with Belgian authorities examining suspect matches at the lower levels of expert tennis.

The French tennis federation stated it might not supply more info due to the fact that the examination is continuous.

The International Tennis Integrity Agency, which examines match-fixing in the sport, decreased to talk about the information of the case however stated in a message to the AP that “there has actually been continuous intermediary in between the ITIA and police in France.”

Speaking to the AP in a phone interview, her attorney stated Sizikova was “exceptionally surprised.”

“She was put in custody like a criminal. She states she is innocent and did not desire me to help her throughout her questioning due to the fact that she considers herself like a victim,” Belot stated.

Belot stated he just began representing Sizikova on Friday after he was approached by the gamer’s moms and dads. He stated Sizikova had actually called the ITIA when the case was opened in 2015 to reject any misbehavior.

The district attorney’s workplace stated the probe fixated suspicions about one match at Roland Garros in 2015. It did not define the match. German paper Die Welt and French sports day-to-day L’Equipe stated at the time there were suspicious wagering patterns in the preliminary of a females’s doubles match on Sept. 30.