NY Times · Feb 24, 2016
British MPs Say Integrity Unit Lacks Proper Funding
LONDON — The Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) set up to tackle the threat of match-fixing is under-funded and struggling to cope with a rise in the number of suspicious betting alerts, British Members of Parliament said on Wednesday.
The London-based organization, established and funded by Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), International Tennis Federation (ITF) and Grand Slam Board to police the sport, survives on a $2 million per year.
It has only six full-time staff, TIU director Nigel Willerton told MPs at a Culture, Media and Sport select committee hearing, while he said the number of betting alerts had risen from 14 in 2012 to 246 last year.