Tennis tops roll of shame for suspicious gambling

Nearly three-quarters of suspicious betting patterns identified by a leading sports gambling watchdog in 2015 occurred in tennis.

ESSA has published its integrity report for the final quarter of 2015, which showed of 100 suspicious sporting events during the year, 73 were tennis matches.

The sport’s anti-corruption practices have been under the microscope following allegations by the BBC and BuzzFeed last month concerning match-fixing at the top level of the game.