The tennis world is on the first day of the Australian Open startled by a match fixing scandal. The BBC and BuzzFeed revealed that there may be widespread match fixing takes place among tennis pros. Novak Djokovic, defending champion in Melbourne and the current number one in the world, revealed that he has also been approached to sell a contest
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“I have never accessed directly, but there is at the beginning of my career ever asked a member of my team if I was willing to sell a match,” Djokovic commented after his victory at the Australian Open on the South Korean talent Chung Hyeon. “We rejected the offer immediately.” Djokovic says that he was then in 2007 offered $ 200,000 to run a race in St. Petersburg. Eventually, he did not participate in the Russian tournament.
Djokovic calls this “crime within the sport of tennis.” “When I first got to the top, about six or seven years ago, when went there many rumors. That is powerful to have occurred and since then I have never heard anything like that.”
Djokovic emphasized that he only knows how things are going in the top of the professional tennis world. Or find the number one in the world is a matter of debate that major bookmakers today to sponsor tournaments. “It’s a thin line. In fact, I think it is a frontier where we have to discuss.” Bookies William Hill is co-sponsor of the Australian Open
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