Wimbledon fears match-fixing scandal in massive betting scam

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Eight Wimbledon Matches Might've Been Tanked in 2007
Published 6/21/2008 by rcade at SportsFilter
Eight Wimbledon Matches Might've Been Tanked in 2007 : The Sunday Times of London serves up a scorcher: "Eight matches at Wimbledon have been reported to the tennis authorities on suspicion that their results have been fixed by professional gambling syndicates." Hints are dropped, but no players are named. Five of the losers are playing in this year's men's singles. ...

Tennis' Dirty Secret Not So Secret Anymore
Published 6/22/2008 by Memphis Bengal at Sports Frog
For anyone who has been paying attention, the murmuring about players throwing matches has been growing steadily louder in the last 24 months or so. Well, consider the murmurs now a shout. From the Sunday Times (London style): "Eight matches at Wimbledon have been reported to the tennis authorities on suspicion that their results have been fixed by professional gambling syndicates. The matches are named in a dossier compiled by leading bookmaking companies, which monitor suspect betting patterns and players thought to be ...

The fix again? Wimbledon matches feared tainted
Published 6/22/2008 by Ink Jet Sean at The Meaningful Collateral
... comes the newest tennis-betting story: Eight Wimbledon matches are under suspicion of being fixed by gamblers. The story comes from a dossier produced by leading bookmaking companies, and presented to the ATP Tour. Of the eight, four came at last year’s Wimbledon, none of them with players from the United Kingdom. ...