Online casinos looses on tennis match

The integrity of sports is a hot topic right now in the online casino and gambling industry and tennis has attracted some negative attention before because of fixed matches. The authorities in the countries are worried that about the relationship between the online casinos and the people doing the sport because of their influence on the results. A Tennis Integrity Unit has been setup to monitor the sport and with this unit the sport hopes to investigate and take action if any match-fixing is going to take place. The TIU will inspect any suspicious betting patterns and hints from players. The most recent case for the TIU looks more like a bad luck than an actual fixing of a match. The unit are still launching an investigation just to ensure that all activities that took place was within the rules of the game.

The situation began with a lot of in-game betting that flooded the online casino betting sites half-way through a tennis match between Caroline Wozniacki and Anne Kremer. The players were in their second set with Caroline in the lead, when Caroline’s father told her daughter to stop the match because of her injured hamstring, which could get worse if she finished the game. The message was delivered in Polish, but it was enough for some clever players to bet a lot of money on a victory to Anne Kremer.

Later Wozniacki did in fact resign from the game and her decision, as the odd-on favourite, cost the online casino bookmakers a lot of money because they did not change the odds in time as a response to the new situation and the damage was done. The case appears to be an accident and a series of events of bad luck for the bookmakers, the TIU has still announced that an investigation will be launched to ensure the integrity of the sport and to make sure that the game is fair and honest for everybody. It looks as if the resignation from the game was legit because of Wozniacki’s problems the day before during her match, where she fell to the ground because of the same injury.