Tennis tops ESSA table for suspicious betting


  • Tennis
  • Tuesday, 19 Jul 2016

A CCTV camera is seen near a tennis player-shaped weather vane at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, where the Wimbledon Tennis Championships take place, in south London, Britain January 18, 2016. REUTERS/Toby Melville

LONDON (Reuters) - Tennis accounted for the majority of suspicious betting activity flagged up by the European Sports Security Association (ESSA) with 34 incidents in the second quarter of 2016.

The sport, hit by match-fixing allegations before this year's Australian Open and undergoing an Independent Review of its anti-corruption procedures, made up 83 percent of total suspicious activity reported by ESSA.

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