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Pandemic match fixing on the rise

LAST week, something unusual happened on a South African tennis court.

The player expected to win, lost the first set of the match, then rebounded to win the next two sets.

It was enough to pique the interest of Sportradar, a multinational corporation that collects and delivers sports data and also looks out for possible match fixing.

Sportradar managing director of Integrity Services, Andreas Krannich, said: “We suspected a player deliberately lost the first set of the match for betting reasons. This type of

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