
Ukraine’s Denys Molchanov ended up being part of a match-fixing allegation at a tennis tournament earlier this season.
Match repairing is amongst the biggest concerns for recreations fans, organizations and bookmakers alike, as nothing about sports could work without knowing that the competition has integrity.
That is why the European Sports Security Association (ESSA) has begun monitoring and reporting on suspicious betting patterns, providing insight into just what competitions are attracting the many unusual bets.
In the first such quarterly report, ESSA found that it absolutely was tennis that triggered both the most alerts and the many suspicious activity during the very first three months of 2015.
A total of 27 alerts had been raised over unusual patterns that are betting tennis during those months, with 17 of them being deemed suspicious.
Tennis, Soccer Generate Bulk of Alerts
In total, there were 49 alerts raised during the quarter after uncommon sizes or numbers of wagers were made on individual occasions. After tennis, soccer saw the most activity that is suspicious with 13 alerts raised and three ultimately deemed become suspicious.
‘Fundamentally, betting-related match-fixing is an effort to defraud wagering operators and their customers by corrupting sporting events,’ said ESSA president Mike O’Kane. ‘It is an problem that triggers economic and social damage and that calls for internation Continue reading “ESSA Claims Tennis Had Most Betting that is suspicious Patterns Q1 2015”