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How BuzzFeed News Used Betting Data To Investigate Match-Fixing In Tennis

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3. I don’t play tennis. I’m a numbers guy. And my first inkling that something was amiss in the world of the “gentleman’s game” came from a statistics journal.

How BuzzFeed News Used Betting Data To Investigate Match-Fixing In Tennis

A professor of sport management at Florida State teamed up with a professional tennis gambler, and they published a study estimating that professional tennis players likely “manipulated or outright fixed” 23 first-round matches in professional tournaments every year. That’s about 1%. But the report did not look at individual players.