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A former senior British police officer who investigated match-fixing in world tennis has spoken out for the first time to condemn the sport’s governing bodies for failing to pursue the “extremely damaging evidence” presented to them.
In the wake of the #TennisRacket investigation by BuzzFeed News and the BBC, the tennis authorities said evidence uncovered by a landmark match-fixing probe in 2008 was not strong enough to warrant any further investigation.
But now Albert Kirby, a retired detective superintendent who was on the team that conducted that investigation, has rejected the governing bodies’ claims and revealed that he told the authorities at the time that the evidence demanded a “vigorous enquiry”.