The suspicions on skills of parties in Wimbledon intensify

The suspicions on the possibility that they are being fixed started off in Wimbledon with the aim of making money in the bets are acquiring form after several companies of the sector detected " you rule inusuales" at the previous moments to one of the confrontations played yesterday. As much the sensationalist ' The Sun' like ' The Independent' they agree in indicating in his editions of this Wednesday that the party that faced in the second day of the match the Austrian Jürgen Melzer and the American Wayne Odesnik is being investigated by the Unit of Integrity of Tennis (TIU, in its abbreviations in English).

Melzer occupies the position number 30 of classification ATP whereas his rival is the 109 of the world, reason why was logical that the bets were in favor of first. But the houses of bets - among them Betfair or Ladbrokes- detected " sum extraordinarias" bet to the victory of the Austrian in three sets, as it happened later.

Some of these companies suspended the bets before the party after detecting these suspicious movements, according to assures the newspaper ' The Independent'. The house of bets by Internet Betfair registered a bet of 350,000 pounds indeed - approximately 400,000 Euros to this same option, took which to warn it the authorities of the possibility that the party had been fixed.

The TIU was created by the ATP, the organization that groups the masculine players who dedicate themselves professionally to this sport, with the aim of investigating and persecuting infractions of this type. The suspicions of skill of parties began Thursday the past, when ' The Independent' he kept awake that he enters six and twelve tennis players of the masculine picture of Wimbledon were going to be observed by the organization of the match by their past implication in parties related to bets suspicious and supposed skills.

This information left from an investigation that carried out the British newspaper to investigate in presumed plots of corruption within the tennis, in which also it needed that it enters the skill suspects were Spanish players, Russian, Argentine and Italian among the 50 first of the world.

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