The Global Lottery Monitoring System (GLMS) published its 2020 Annual Monitoring and Intelligence Report, providing the main highlights in terms of objectives, key facts and figures. As part of the report, GLMS released data related to the number of suspicious alerts for the year. Alerts and Alert Reports The integrity body dealing with detection and […]
The Chilean tennis player Mauricio Alvarez-Guzman tried to appeal the lifetime ban penalty which he received from the Tennis Integrity Unit in 2019. Today the Court of Arbitration for Sport announced that the tennis pro’s appeal was dismissed, leaving the lifetime ban penalty unchanged. Chilean Tennis Player Appeal Dismissed by CAS It was back in […]
The Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) announced in two press releases December 4 that two players have been punished for different offenses. Unranked British player George Kennedy has been banned from tennis for a total of seven months, while Ukranian Stanislav Poplavskyy has been issued with a lifetime ban from the sport. George Kennedy Suspended George […]
After conducting an investigation, the Tennis Integrity Unit issued a lifetime ban for the professional Bulgarian player Aleksandrina Naydenova. Along with the ban, a fine of $150,000 was issued. The Unit charged and consequently found the player guilty of 12 breaches relating to match-fixing and one related to non-co-operation with the investigation. A Lifetime Ban […]
The first three months of 2020 saw a worrying tendency for the London-based group tasked with monitoring suspicious activities in tennis, the Tennis Integrity Unit /TIU/, as the cases submitted during the period for unusual betting patterns spiked up to 38, compared to 21 for the same period in 2019. Spike Related to the Pandemic […]
