Tennis is threatened with a new cheating scandal. The two top 50 players Nikoloz Basilashvili and Aslan Karatsev and their former coach Yahor Yatsyk are said to follow ZDF– Information tennis matches have been postponed.
The Georgian Basilashvili is currently ranked 26th in the world. The Russian Karatsev is currently number 42 in the world.
At the center of the scandal is Belarusian coach Yahor Yatsyk, who coached both players. He has offered players money to reschedule tennis matches at least twice in the past. That goes from the ZDF available investigation files of the world tennis association ITF.
Yatsyk last looked after Karatsev from 2018 to 2021. Basilashvilli traveled with the Belarusian for around 18 months from 2013.
Double hit at Wimbledon
To the ZDF There are five allegedly postponed matches with unusually high betting swings in which Karatsev is said to be involved. Two matches fall in the period of cooperation with Yatsyk – a doubles 2019 in Finland and a doubles 2020 in Kazakhstan – both played on the Challenger Tour.
According to information from the Russian media, proceedings against Basilashvilli for match fixings are underway at the ITIA. It is said to be his first-round doubles match at Wimbledon 2021 alongside Moldovan Radu Albot. It is about strikingly high bets on the loss and amounts of up to half a million US dollars.
An Eastern European coach who wishes to remain anonymous charges Yatsyk im ZDF difficult: “He’s been involved in betting fraud for years, works with people involved in match fixing in Russia and Eastern Europe. He always has a lot of money with him, he’s on tour and he’s looking for young players who have problems have. Financial or mental. Whom he can easily convince with money.”
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