According to a media report, the top 50 tennis professionals Nikolos Basiahvili and Aslan Karatsev, as well as a coach, are said to have attracted attention through match-fixing.
As ZDF reported on Sunday (07/10/2022), the two tennis pros Nikolos Basiashvili (Georgia, 26th world ranking) and Aslan Karatsev (Russia, 40th world ranking) as well as the Belarusian coach Yahor Yatsik are said to be involved in the manipulation of tennis games, so-called match fixing have been.
An Eastern European coach who wanted to remain anonymous confirmed this to ZDF. According to the TV broadcaster, there are five specific suspected cases. The youngest is said to have taken place at the ATP tournament in Stuttgart, where in the first round of Karatsevs in doubles there were said to have been high stakes for a team defeat with the Russian professional.
Big bets on Basiashvili doubles?
A similar process with bets of up to $ 500,000 is said to have taken place when Basiashvili lost the first round in doubles with Radu Albut from Moldova in 2021 at Wimbledon.
An employee of a betting monitoring company working for the tennis world association ITF confirmed investigations into Karatsev games, but no suspicions. The World Federation (ITF) itself initially did not want to comment.
According to ZDF, there are investigation files at the ITF against coach Yatsik, who last looked after Karatsev from 2018 to 2021 and Basiashvili from 2013 to 2014. He is said to have specifically offered players money to postpone games.