Tennis still defending its name despite integrity review warnings | Kevin Mitchell

Independent Review of Integrity has spent two years looking into corruption and 15% of players surveyed had first-hand knowledge of match-fixing

It would be unwise to ignore the diligence and expertise of three respected lawyers who have been investigating match-fixing in tennis for more than two years and concluded on Wednesday that there was a “tsunami” of corruption on the fringes of the game.

Similarly, though, it would be witless to assume the game is about to collapse in a steaming pile of shame. It is a long way from Centre Court at Wimbledon, where the saints of the game dress in white, to the echoing outposts where only friends and family are witnesses to the shenanigans of sinners, a significant handful of desperate part-timers masquerading as full-time professional athletes, who have no qualms about manipulating the markets to take home what generally amounts to ill-gotten pocket money.

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