Balls sit on a practice court ahead of the U.S. Open tennis championship in New York, August 30, 2009 in this file picture. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
LONDON (Reuters) - Professional tennis's anti-corruption unit, accused of failing to pursue allegations of match-fixing by leading past and current players, insists that it has both the ability and the determination to nail miscreants big and small.
Yet its list of catches is very modest for a global sport that one study says is the third most vulnerable to betting fraud through match-fixing, because of the proliferation of low-level tournaments and the difficulty of proving that any player has lost deliberately.
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