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Paris police on Friday detained Russian tennis participant Yana Sizikova
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- Last Updated:June 04, 2021, 15:42 IST
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Paris police on Friday detained Russian tennis participant Yana Sizikova over the suspected fixing of a doubles match on the French Open final yr, a police and authorized supply advised AFP.
Sizikova, 26, who’s ranked a hundred and first within the ladies’s doubles rankings, was detained on Thursday night time after taking part in on this yr’s event, the supply within the Paris prosecutor’s workplace stated.
An investigation into doable corruption and fraud was opened final October over a first-round match in 2020 that noticed Sizikova and her American associate Madison Brengle defeated by Romanian pair Andreea Mitu and Patricia Maria Tig.
Suspicions had been aroused due to abnormally excessive betting exercise on the sport registered in nations outdoors of France which was reported to legislation enforcement, a supply near the case advised AFP on the time.
One sport particularly — the fifth of the second set — was being analysed by investigators after it featured two uncommon double-faults by Sizikova.
On Thursday, Sizikova and her new associate Ekaterina Alexandrova had been closely defeated in beneath an hour 1-6, 1-6 by Australian pair Storm Sanders and Ajla Tomljanovic in the primary spherical of the ladies’s doubles.
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