10-10-2007 Tennis associations to set up an integrity unit to combat match-fixing

The International Tennis Federation will meet with the ATP and WTA Tours to discuss the formation of a tennis-wide integrity unit which will responsible to provide a unified code of conduct as well as to review and improve the procedures used to identify corruption and match-fixing.

The Guardian tipped off Lord Condon, Director of the International Cricket Council's Anti-Corruption Unit, and Paul Scotney, Director of Security of the Horseracing Regulatory Authority, as the candidates to run the organization.

Meanwhile, the jury in the trial against Kieren Fallon was told today that the former champion jockey and two other riders deliberately lost races as part of an illegal betting scam organized by a professional gambler. "The defendants in this case did not fix races to ensure a particular horse won. On the contrary they fixed the races to ensure that the horses in question lost," said the prosecutor. "The object of the conspiracy was to wager large amounts of money on a particular horse to lose in each of those races while knowing that the jockey was prepared, if necessary, to cheat by stopping the horse."
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