Tennis begins corruption review
9th January, 2008
The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) and International Tennis Federation (ITF) and organisers of the grand slam tennis events have come together to launch a joint review of their anti-corruption policies.
Jeffrey Rees and Ben Gunn, former Metropolitan police offers, will head up the report after they have both overseen similar reviews in cricket and horseracing.
Chief executive of the women's WTA Tour Larry Scott said that the review “represented another important step by our sport's leaders to ensure that we do everything in our power to combat the very real threat of gambling."
He was keen to get across the fact that the independent review ensured the integrity of the results, and professional tennis in the future.
Executive chairman of the ATP Etienne de Villiers said: "Integrity of competition is the essence of all sport. That is why we remain fully committed to meeting the global challenge posed by gambling face on."
