In all the commotion over Sepp Blatter and FIFA soccer crimes and misdemeanors, I’ll bet you forgot to notice that professional tennis is as corrupt as a 19th Century New York politician. Well, allegedly corrupt, because even though evidence of suspected match fixing had been brought to the attention of tennis authorities as early as 2007, little was ever done.
According to reports by the BBC and Buzzfeed news, files exposing evidence of widespread alleged match-fixing of world tennis, among them the hallowed grounds of Wimbledon itself, have been brought to light. BBC News:
Over the past decade, 16 players who have ranked in the top 50 have been repeatedly flagged to the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) over suspicions they have thrown matches.