An investigation for “organized gang fraud” and for “active and passive sports corruption” was opened on October 1 because of suspicion of a match-fixing at Roland Garros, we learned Tuesday from the Paris prosecutor’s office.
According to the German newspaper Die Welt and the sports daily L’Équipe, these suspicions relate to a women’s double that pitted Romania’s Andreea Mitu and Patricia Maria Tig against the Russian players Yana Sizikova and American Madison Brengle on September 30, in the first round of the Roland-Garros tennis tournament.
This concerns more particularly the fifth game of the second set, a shutout won by the Romanian duo after two double faults by the Russian Sizikova, 25 years old and 89th in the world, at the service.
According to the Team, “large sums were bet on the winning of this game by the Romanians with several operators in Paris, in different countries”.
The investigations were entrusted to the Central Service of Races and Games (SCCJ), said the prosecution.
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