Break point: allegations of match-fixing give the main players in tennis governance an advantage
Will they take the chance to clean up problems with the game
For those on the inside, it’s an incident that is well known. Not so long ago, a western European player struggling to make it out of the third-tier of tennis decided an easier route would be to play a Futures event in South America. The standard would be lower but his logic, in the face of his limited talents, was to buy his way to the ranking points. When the draw came out, he offered those he was set to face $500 each to throw matches, and they all agreed. Until the final that is, when his opponent backtracked and suddenly demanded double. After an argument, the opponent asked, “What are you going to do? You can’t report me. I haven’t broken any rules, you have.” And after refusing to pay extra, he was well beaten.
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