A big scandal shakes the tennis world: Two elite players allegedly falsified matches – Športky.sk

Illustrative photo Source: Getty Images LONDON – In addition to beautiful matches on the court, the world of tennis also offers mysterious cases behind the scenes, which often only come to light after several years. This also applies to the case of two players who belong to the top 50 in the world and were supposed to influence matches for a financial reward from their coach. It should be world number 40 and semi-finalist of last year’s Australian Open, Russian Aslan Karatsev, and Georgian tennis player Nikolaz Basilashvili, who is ranked 25th in the ATP rankings. According to the German station ZDF, which refers to an unnamed coach, their former coach Yegor Jacjuk, who managed Karatsev from 2018 to 2021, and Basilashvili a few years earlier, was supposed to offer money to the players for influencing the results of matches. Exclusive: after a long research @MarkusHarm and myself publish a TV piece for the @sportstudio reportage today about matchfixingAccording to ZDF info top 50 players Basilashvilli and Karatsev + their former coach Yahor Yatsyk are allegedly involved in matchfixingThread 1/ — Jannik Schneider (@schnejan ) July 10, 2022 They received an offer “that cannot be refused” It is no secret that both players faced financial problems at the beginning of their careers, and it was the Belarusian coach who was supposed to help them at that time. An unnamed source from the ZDF station confirmed that Jacjuk approached the players with a financial offer. “He worked with both players and watched them for years. Both are very talented, but at the beginning of their careers they had financial problems. And also weak periods when they fell down the rankings. At critical moments, he came to them with an offer,” said the unnamed coach. Photo gallery (3) Source: SITA/AP/Andy Brownbill It is not the first time that Russian tennis player Karatsev, who also managed to win the Sydney tournament this year, is suspected of influencing the results at lower-level tournaments in Finland and Kazakhstan, as well as at the event ATP 250 in Stuttgart, where he did not pass the Swiss youngster Dominic Stricker in the qualification this year. The 30-year-old Georgian was also under suspicion last year at Wimbledon, where together with Moldavian Radu Albot, they finished in the doubles already in the opening round, while a suspiciously high amount, around half a million dollars, was bet on their loss. The World Tennis Federation and its anti-corruption unit have not yet commented on the case. Both tennis players were already to be interrogated by the French police and the case is being resolved. Author: © Zoznam/Martin Turčin Twitter/Jannik Schneider Source: Sports