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| Match fixing now in Tennis too |
| Friday, January 25, 2008 |
24 January 2008
The match fixing has again engulfed the Indian sporting public but this time around it is not cricket that is in question but infact it is the sport which is least likey to draw any attention of match fixers, the Tennis.
Indian tennis assosiation launched an inquiry on Tuesday to find whether any of their Davis Cup players since 1996 had been approached by illegal bookmakers to lose matches. The announcement came a day after doubles specialist Mahesh Bhupathi told Reuters he had spurned such an attempt.
"The All India Tennis Association (AITA) has taken a serious note of the revelation made by Mahesh Bhupathi in respect of Indian Davis Cup tie against Holland in February 1996," it said in a statement on Tuesday. "The AITA is very clear that Davis Cup is absolutely clean and no such incident has ever been heard of before or in the recent past in India.
Bhupathi has said he turned down an approach to lose a match in the World Group tie at home where India upset the Dutch with the 33-year-old playing a leading role. "I haven't been approach in the context of an ATP," Bhupathi said in the interview. "I was approached maybe 10, 12 years ago, in the context of Davis Cup in India," |
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