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In the last weeks many things have been written about match fixing in tennis.
But, anybody knows what we can do if we detect suspicious stuff in a match when we are betting? How can we report that?
For example, if a big amount of money appears at a suspicious price (because money was being matched at a significantly different price) at some point in the match, and just a couple of minutes after that the other player starts missing everything and he eventually loses. Of course this doesn't mean there has definitely been a case of match fixing. But it is indeed suspicious: it could be the case.
betfair has a very strange policy about this, because they say they will never get back to you with the outcome of the investigation. Which in practice means: you will never have any evidence that the issue has really been investigated, and you will never get your money back even if there was actually corrupted behaviour and the winner is forced to give the money back.
Anybody knows of any other (more transparent) body goverment where we could report suspicious activity?
But, anybody knows what we can do if we detect suspicious stuff in a match when we are betting? How can we report that?
For example, if a big amount of money appears at a suspicious price (because money was being matched at a significantly different price) at some point in the match, and just a couple of minutes after that the other player starts missing everything and he eventually loses. Of course this doesn't mean there has definitely been a case of match fixing. But it is indeed suspicious: it could be the case.
betfair has a very strange policy about this, because they say they will never get back to you with the outcome of the investigation. Which in practice means: you will never have any evidence that the issue has really been investigated, and you will never get your money back even if there was actually corrupted behaviour and the winner is forced to give the money back.
Anybody knows of any other (more transparent) body goverment where we could report suspicious activity?
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Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU): info@tennisintegrityunit.com
Tennis Integrity Unit, c/o International Tennis Federation, Bank Lane, Roehampton, London, SW15 5XZ, United Kingdom
Bit of a joke organization that is reluctant to take any action and suppresses evidence of match fixing.
Tennis Integrity Unit, c/o International Tennis Federation, Bank Lane, Roehampton, London, SW15 5XZ, United Kingdom
Bit of a joke organization that is reluctant to take any action and suppresses evidence of match fixing.
The winner is never forced to give the money back.
Betfair's investigations will never come to anything. There's just nothing they can do really, and it's not their job to police the sport.
TIU as mentioned above is your best bet as mentioned above, but in reality is probably a waste of time too. Anything truly suspicious they are probably already aware of, just the resources aren't there for a true investigation to take place.
Betfair's investigations will never come to anything. There's just nothing they can do really, and it's not their job to police the sport.
TIU as mentioned above is your best bet as mentioned above, but in reality is probably a waste of time too. Anything truly suspicious they are probably already aware of, just the resources aren't there for a true investigation to take place.
Of course they're a waste of time, you could squeeze all of the TIU staff members into a phonebox.
this is how it should work:
TIU monitors suspicious betting activity in real time (they deliberately decided against doing this - f*cking amazing)
anything blatant is flagged in real time to the umpires.
umpires in these cases become especially vigilant for any cases of a player not giving a best effort and warn the players accordingly during the match.
penalties for lack of best effort are increased substantially, including length bans for repeat offenders, with the umpire having the opportunity to default a player during a match.
bookmakers void all matches when players are disqualified for lack of best effort. bookmakers could even go as far as to void all matches where players receive more than a certain number of best effort warnings.
The point being that the ATP, WTA and ITF have to instigate a mechanism to warn umpires and therefore players in real time, as well as protecting bookmakers and exchange customers from being defrauded without directly accusing a player of being involved in matchfixing, which is hugely difficult to prove if you're responding to it reactively, hours or days or even weeks after an alleged incident has taken place.
TIU monitors suspicious betting activity in real time (they deliberately decided against doing this - f*cking amazing)
anything blatant is flagged in real time to the umpires.
umpires in these cases become especially vigilant for any cases of a player not giving a best effort and warn the players accordingly during the match.
penalties for lack of best effort are increased substantially, including length bans for repeat offenders, with the umpire having the opportunity to default a player during a match.
bookmakers void all matches when players are disqualified for lack of best effort. bookmakers could even go as far as to void all matches where players receive more than a certain number of best effort warnings.
The point being that the ATP, WTA and ITF have to instigate a mechanism to warn umpires and therefore players in real time, as well as protecting bookmakers and exchange customers from being defrauded without directly accusing a player of being involved in matchfixing, which is hugely difficult to prove if you're responding to it reactively, hours or days or even weeks after an alleged incident has taken place.
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