{"id":29522,"date":"2018-10-26T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29522"},"modified":"2018-10-26T11:00:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:30:19","slug":"corruption-in-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/corruption-in-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Corruption in Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/corruption-in-tennis\/article23828868.ece\">Corruption in Tennis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Corruption; Gambling; Match fixing<\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Report by Independent Review Panel (IRP) highlights the problem of corruption in tennis<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Important Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Investigations by BBC and Buzzfeed revealed that there was widespread match fixing and illegal betting in tennis.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Post the revelation, the Independent Review Panel (IRP) was formed in 2016, which published its draft report in April 2018.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0According to the report, governing bodies in tennis did little to combat the menace of corruption in the sport<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The bodies face ethical dilemma as sponsorships from betting agencies have become an integral part of the sport.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The report highlights the problem of low prize money for players as one of the major reasons for match fixing.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The report recommends that the International Tennis Federation (ITF) should stop sharing official live scoring data with Sportradar<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sportradar is a sports data company that sells information to betting companies. This facilitates betting during low level matches<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corruption in Tennis Corruption; Gambling; Match fixing News: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Report by Independent Review Panel (IRP) highlights the problem of corruption in tennis Important Facts: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Investigations by BBC and Buzzfeed revealed that there was widespread match fixing and illegal betting in tennis. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Post the revelation, the Independent Review Panel (IRP) was formed in 2016, which published its&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/corruption-in-tennis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Corruption in Tennis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704774329},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}