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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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