Player arrested for match-fixing at 2020 French Open

The player was arrested on Thursday night on charges of "sports bribery and organized fraud for acts likely to have been committed in September 2020," the prosecutor's office said.

Paris: A tennis player suspected of match-fixing last year has been arrested in Paris during the French Open, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Friday.

According to French newspaper Le Parisien, which first reported the story, the player is 765th-ranked Yana Sizikova of Russia. The prosecutor’s office confirmed to The Associated Press that a “women’s international player” was in custody, but it did not identify her. The player was arrested on Thursday night on charges of “sports bribery and organized fraud for acts likely to have been committed in September 2020,” the prosecutor’s office said.

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An investigation was opened last October by a French police unit specialising in betting fraud and match-fixing. It has previously worked with Belgian authorities investigating suspected fixed matches at the lower levels of professional tennis.

The prosecutor’s office said the probe centered on suspicions about one match at Roland Garros last year. It did not specify the match. German newspaper Die Welt and French sports daily L’Equipe said at the time there were suspicious betting patterns in the first round of a women’s doubles match on September 30.

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