The tennis world has been sent into shock after a Russian player was arrested on suspicion of being involved in match fixing in Paris.
Yana Sizikova, 26, who is 101st in the women’s doubles rankings, was detained by a special French unit on the grounds of the French Open, shortly before 9pm local time on Thursday, a police and legal source told AFP.
Suspicions were aroused because of abnormally high betting activity on the match in countries outside France, which was reported to law enforcement, a source close to the case told AFP at the time. On Thursday, Sizikova and her new partner Ekaterina Alexandrova lost in under an hour 1-6 1-6 to Australian pair Storm Sanders and Ajla Tomljanovic in the first round of the women’s doubles.
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