Match-Fixing in Tennis

In tennis, match manipulation remains a recurrent issue. The Tennis Integrity Unit was founded in 2008 as a result of an investigation into the matter, which The Sunday Telegraph originally reported on in 2003. When Daniel Kollerer was banned for life in 2011 for match-fixing, it was a first in the sports world. By the end of that year, the Wimbledon organizers had been given a list of names of people who might have been involved. In a 2016 study, the BBC reported that there was "evidence of widespread suspected match-fixing at the top level of international tennis, particularly at Wimbledon." That tennis was "a sport rife with corruption" in a February 2019 article. The International Tennis Integrity Agency was established in 2021 as an extra anti-corruption mechanism by the international governing bodies of professional tennis.

Nikolay Davydenko, a Russian tennis player, was accused of fixing a match in Poland against Martin Vassallo Argüello in 2007. However, the Association of Tennis Professionals exonerated him. Several million dollars were reportedly bet on the game using Russian accounts, according to a probe conducted in 2016. BuzzFeed and the BBC provided evidence that the suspected leader of an Italian sports betting ring texted or was texted by Davydenko 82 times. In January 2016, BuzzFeed and the BBC collaborated on an investigation that discovered extensive match-fixing suspicions inside Northern Italian, Sicilian, and Russian betting syndicates, including unusual wagers at tournaments like Wimbledon. The news crew looked over 26,000 separate stakes. In June of 2018, Nicolás Kicker, an Argentine tennis player, was suspended for a minimum of three years due to match-fixing. Findings from an investigation by the Tennis Integrity Unit indicate that he was involved in at least two manipulated matches in 2015. He was banned from attending or taking part in any ATP or WTA tournaments.