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17 Oct 14
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ROME (AP) -- Italian tennis players Daniele Bracciali and Potito Starace are facing corruption accusations after intercepted Internet conversations claiming they sold matches were printed Wednesday in Italian media.
The conversations are part of the extensive data that judicial investigators in Cremona have been sorting through in a match-fixing inquiry into soccer.
In a July 2007 conversation on Skype between Bracciali and an accountant who was arrested in 2011, Bracciali discusses arranging a match in Newport, Rhode Island, against American player Scoville Jenkins.
Jenkins won 6-2, 6-1.
In 2011, an owner of a betting parlor who was later arrested is heard saying that Starace agreed to sell the final of a tournament in Casablanca.
Pablo Andujar of Spain won the final 6-1, 6-2.
Prosecutor Roberto Di Martino, who is leading the Cremona inquiry, confirmed to The Associated Press the authenticity of the conversations.
Di Martino added that foreign tennis players might also be involved.
"I can't rule that out," Di Martino told the AP. "But I can't say anything more for now."
Bracciali and Starace, neither of whom are officially under investigation, refused to comment after pairing together to win a first-round doubles at the Kremlin Cup in Moscow on Wednesday.
The Italian tennis federation (FIT) said it will request copies of all the documents from Cremona authorities involving tennis players.
"If the inquiry confirms what went on in the intercepted conversations published by the newspapers then we'll be dealing with serious and intolerable offenses," FIT president Angelo Binaghi said in a statement.
The Last Bet operation has resulted in more than 100 people placed under investigation in Italy since mid-2011, with suspect soccer matches being looked at by prosecutors in Cremona, Bari and Naples. The inquiry is branching out to other sports.
The 36-year-old Bracciali is a doubles specialist while the 33-year-old Starace is ranked 150th in singles.
Bracciali and Starace were already two of five Italians - along with Alessio Di Mauro, Giorgio Galimberti and Federico Luzzi - who were given suspensions in 2007-08 by the ATP ranging from six weeks to nine months for betting.
In other cases of match-fixing in tennis, life bans were handed to Daniel Koellerer of Austria in 2011, David Savic of Serbia in 2012, and Andrey Kumantsov of Russia this year.
In July, one man was charged and five others arrested in an Australian police operation against an international tennis match-fixing syndicate.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TEN_ITALY_MATCH_FIXING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-10-15-06-49-37
The conversations are part of the extensive data that judicial investigators in Cremona have been sorting through in a match-fixing inquiry into soccer.
In a July 2007 conversation on Skype between Bracciali and an accountant who was arrested in 2011, Bracciali discusses arranging a match in Newport, Rhode Island, against American player Scoville Jenkins.
Jenkins won 6-2, 6-1.
In 2011, an owner of a betting parlor who was later arrested is heard saying that Starace agreed to sell the final of a tournament in Casablanca.
Pablo Andujar of Spain won the final 6-1, 6-2.
Prosecutor Roberto Di Martino, who is leading the Cremona inquiry, confirmed to The Associated Press the authenticity of the conversations.
Di Martino added that foreign tennis players might also be involved.
"I can't rule that out," Di Martino told the AP. "But I can't say anything more for now."
Bracciali and Starace, neither of whom are officially under investigation, refused to comment after pairing together to win a first-round doubles at the Kremlin Cup in Moscow on Wednesday.
The Italian tennis federation (FIT) said it will request copies of all the documents from Cremona authorities involving tennis players.
"If the inquiry confirms what went on in the intercepted conversations published by the newspapers then we'll be dealing with serious and intolerable offenses," FIT president Angelo Binaghi said in a statement.
The Last Bet operation has resulted in more than 100 people placed under investigation in Italy since mid-2011, with suspect soccer matches being looked at by prosecutors in Cremona, Bari and Naples. The inquiry is branching out to other sports.
The 36-year-old Bracciali is a doubles specialist while the 33-year-old Starace is ranked 150th in singles.
Bracciali and Starace were already two of five Italians - along with Alessio Di Mauro, Giorgio Galimberti and Federico Luzzi - who were given suspensions in 2007-08 by the ATP ranging from six weeks to nine months for betting.
In other cases of match-fixing in tennis, life bans were handed to Daniel Koellerer of Austria in 2011, David Savic of Serbia in 2012, and Andrey Kumantsov of Russia this year.
In July, one man was charged and five others arrested in an Australian police operation against an international tennis match-fixing syndicate.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TEN_ITALY_MATCH_FIXING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-10-15-06-49-37
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hard evidence of bracciali himself discussing a match is one thing.
a betting parlor owner having a b1tch, is no different to the mugs on here having a go. that andujar starace match showed no signs of being fixed on here: About 1.8mill matched, starace 1.8 sp, no significant market prescience. |
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*no significant market prescience during the match.
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Maybe nothing in that match but there were some serious threads on here about two matches involving Fognini (vs Vagnozzi) and Starace (vs Gimeno-Traver) just 8 and 9 days later respectively.
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that sort of confirms my point though jab.
those two matches you mention were both retirements where the markets clearly knew that fognini (who went a set and 2-0* up but was 2.4 to back off a 1.25 sp) would retire and that starace (gim 1.09 when 3-0 in the 2nd, one set down) would too. as is so often the case, the liquidity on here can rarely support the greed of those in the know, and there must be plenty of people, me included, who are happy to get on the sure thing, regardless of the odds if the signs are obvious, magnifying the effect. which is why i don't think it's unlikely that that final was dodgy because the market behaviour was consistent with the score and showed no knowledge of the outcome. |
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This match may not be suspicious but Starace is still no surprise to be mentioned, he was on the TIU's leaked blacklist about 3 years ago. This is still relatively low level stuff with fairly low level ranked players involved, who are the most prolific f!xers in the top 50 is what I would want to know, matches where there is much more liquidity.
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^top 20 rather, speaking of blacklisters, Davydenko retired yesterday.
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Fognini should be investigated. That scum fixed some games as big favorites and let the big dogs win.
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As long he is nr 1 in Italia, they wont touch him. Otherwise they would open a breach, which could hurt ATP (& WTA) severely.
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