In 2016, a rising Australian tennis star was suspended for throwing a set in a low-level tournament. It was a sadly common tale in the murky world of tennis, where match-fixing is a major scourge.
On Rod Laver arena, the then-teenager from Brisbane upset Uzbek Jurabek Karimov to win the Australian Open Junior Boys title, adding his name to past winners Nick Kyrgios, Alexander Zverev, Andy Roddick and Stefan Edberg.
Anderson’s age shocked the tennis world but his crime did not. By 2018, tales of match fixing, mostly at lower levels of global tennis, were now sadly all-too common, and a story like Anderson’s was just more evidence of the worrying state of tennis’ integrity. The participants might bet themselves, or have others bet for them, but match-fixing routinely involves a gambler paying a sum of money to the athlete or official so they can guarantee a winning bet.
It prompted an independent review by the International Tennis Federation, and after a two-year process that saw a panel interview over 3000 players, it found there was a “tsunami” of match-fixing and corruption at lower levels of professional tennis, on the ITF Futures and ATP Challengers Tours.
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