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A Russian tennis player was arrested on Thursday in

Paris

in the framework of an investigation for suspicions of gambling in a rigged doubles match of the 2020 edition of

Roland Garros

, police sources and the prosecution of the French capital reported on Friday.

Yana Sizikova

, 26, the 101st world doubles player, was arrested on Thursday after a match in this edition, as part of the investigation opened on October 1 for "sports corruption" and "organized gang fraud," the prosecution, confirming an information from the newspaper

Le Parisien

.

The investigation was revealed in October by the German newspaper

Die Welt

and the French sports newspaper

L'Equipe

and focused on the women's doubles match between the couple formed by

Sizikova

and the American

Madison Brengle

against the Romanians

Andreea Mitu

and

Patricia Maria Tig

, on September 30, in the first round of the 2020 edition of the Parisian 'grande'.

Suspicions were particularly focused on the fifth game of the second set, blank, won by the Romanian duo after two dubious double faults by

Sizikova

.

Mitu

and

Tig

prevailed in two sets, 7-6 and 6-4. According to a source close to the dossier interviewed in October, the bets on this game reached "abnormally high sums of several tens of thousands of euros."

The

National Gaming Authority (ANJ)

, which regulates

gambling, horse racing and sports betting

in

France

, had not detected anomalies "in the French market" but had received alerts "from the

GLMS

(

Global Lottery Monitoring System

) and the

Copenhagen

group

(which includes 33 platforms to combat sports manipulation in the world) ", according to a source from the

ANJ

.

Tennis has been hit by suspicions of rigged matches, but usually in the second or third category.

Various investigations are open in

France

.

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