Re: Tennis Related - Off Court Serious Issues
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2022 11:09 pm
If these allegations come to be true all three of them should be banned from any involvement with Tennis for life.ti-amie wrote: ↑Tue Jul 19, 2022 10:23 pm Background
via @Jannik Schneider
Exclusive: after a long research @MarkusHarm and myself publish a TV piece for the @sportstudio reportage today about matchfixing
According to ZDF info top 50 players Basilashvilli and Karatsev + their former coach Yahor Yatsyk are allegedly involved in matchfixing
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Belarusian coach Yahor Yatsyk, who coached and traveled with both Basilashvilli and Karatsev, has offered players money to matchfix matches on at least two occasions in the past. This emerges from secret investigation docs from ITF
ZDF has data of five allegedly machtfixed matches with unusually high betting swings in which Karatsev is said to be involved. 2 fall in the period of cooperation with Yatysk (2018 until 2021) - a doubles in Finland 2019 and a doubles in Kazakhstan 2020.
Yatsyk/Karatsev were investigated by French police during French Open 2020 - l'equipe reported this on May 2nd 2022. We can confirm that. Nothing happened since
According to ZDF info Karatsev was allegedly also involved in a matchfix at the ATP tournament in Stuttgart 2022.
ITIA didnt comment on Karatsev/ Yatsyk when asked. Nor on the question why both arent suspended despite investigations in France. Only Karatsev's former girlfriend, Sofia Dmitrieva, has been banned for life for matchfixing. Karatsev gave us an interview but pushed back his quotes
According to Russian media, proceedings vs Basilashvilli are pending at ITIA. When asked by ZDF, his management said nothing had been heard from ITIA. According to ZDF, his first-rd doubles in Wimbledon 2021 with Moldovan Radu Albot was under investigation for matchfixing.
Basilashvillis doubles in Wimbledon 21 is about conspicuously high bets on the loss and amounts up to half a million US dollars. Several betting providers and people familiar with the matter confirmed this to ZDF.
We spoke to an easteuropean coach who is scared to talk publicly
"Yatsyk has been involved in fixing for years, works with people who have to do with fixing in Russia/Eastern Europe. He always has a lot of money with him, is on tour and is searching for young players who have problems. Financial/mental. Players he can convince with money"
The coach said: "Yatysk worked closely with Karatsev/Basilashvilli, watched them for years. Both incredibly talented players. But they had financial problems at beginning and major phases of weakness and slipped in the rankings. Each in a critical moment he approached them.”
The 8-minutes-tv-piece will be live @ZDF in TV and soon online under the link and in the Mediathek (in german)
The 8-minute-piece is now available in this article. Its in german
Tennis Wettbetrug: Zwei Topspieler und Trainer verwickelt
Laut ZDF sollen zwei aktuelle Top-50-Spieler im Tennis und ihr ehemaliger Trainer in Sportbetrug, sogenanntem Matchfixing, verwickelt sein.
https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/sport/te ... t-100.html
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