Are Your Wimbledon Bets Safe?

Betting | selectabet | June 19, 2009 at 12:19 pm

The much-anticipated Wimbledon 2009 gets under way on Monday at SW19 but a new investigation by The Independent suggests that the integrity of the competition is being closely scrutinised after a series of investigations into alleged match-fixing earlier in the season.

The Independent claims that up to 12 players competing in the Men’s Championship are on a ‘watch-list’. But most worringly is the claim that the sports governing body, the ATP, “failed to provide records that might have helped the prosecution” when the allegations of corruption were brought to court.

The news follows hard on the heels of some bookmakers suggesting that they’ll stop taking bets on meaningless end of season football matches. Are tennis matches next?

The good news is that with the authorities on such high alert over the Wimbledon fortnight we can surely expect the results to be whiter than white. Can’t we?