More allegations of tennis match fixing
September 27th, 2007 in US/World Tennis News

The tennis gambling scandal widened with revelations Belgian Gilles Elseneer was offered money to throw a match at Wimbledon. Elseneer’s compatriot Dick Norman said he had been asked to provide locker room information on player injuries in return for cash. News of the approaches follows an illegal $255,000 incentive offered to Serbia’s Novak Djokovic to deliberately lose in St Petersburg last year. Tennis authorities continue to probe betting patterns stemming from a suspect match in Poland in July between Russia’s Nikolay Davydenko and Argentina’s Martin Vassallo Arguello. Wimbledon officials were shocked last year when betting exchange Betfair revealed $690,000 was wagered on unheralded Richard Bloomfield to beat higher-ranked Argentine Carlos Berlocqread article

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