Investigations by an independent commission on the manipulation of professional tennis matches are ongoing. And they’re already costing a lot of money.
When it comes to the integrity of tennis, everyone is pulling in the same direction: the biggest tournaments, the ATP and WTA players’ associations and the ITF. You’d think so. In fact, the work of an independent commission to investigate match-arrangement incidents in professional tennis is becoming more and more lengthy: almost two years have already been spent working on the report of the commission set up after the Australian Open 2016, and there is still no end in sight.
This is due to objections by affected persons or organisations against the results available to date, as reported by the Daily Mail. The findings may only be published after the criticism has been heard and removed.
This, in turn, comes at a high cost to the clients: the costs for the almost two years of work are now estimated at more than ten million pounds sterling. whose organisers are to be borne. The Lawn Tennis Association from the UK alone accounts for more than a million pounds.
Started the discussions reports of the BBC and. of the website Buzzfeed, the cases presented should go back more than a decade. Since then, the independent commission of inquiry has questioned more than 100 people and about 50 organisations on the subject of match agreements.
The frustration of the donors, however, is also due to the fact that they themselves are usually not even affected by the manipulations – these tend to take place on the lower floors of professional tennis. In any case, the publication of the final report is no longer expected this year – at the earliest the result of the Australian Open 2018 should be published.