[Epoch Times, June 4, 2021](Epoch Times reporter Li Yan comprehensive report) The 2021 French Open (Roland Garros) is being held in Paris, France. According to reports, Russian player Yana Sizikova was arrested and detained during the game. The reason is that she was accused of playing counterfeit during last year’s game.
The Russian TASS News Agency (TASS) quoted her lawyer Frederic Belot as saying: “Yana SizikovaShocked and denied the accusation that she had never committed a crime. “
The Parisian newspaper reported on Friday (June 4) that Sizikova was arrested in Paris on Thursday night. Before being arrested, the police also searched the hotel where she lived, and she is currently detained in the police office.
“These allegations hurt her reputation.” Belot said that she would file a legal action with “defamation” allegations.
The 2021 French Open (Roland Garros) is being held at the Roland Garros Stadium in Paris, France, and it is the sixth day on Friday.
Reuters reported that in the 2020 French Open in September last year (2020), the first round of the women’s doubles match was suspected of playing counterfeit and rigging the results of the match. French prosecutors therefore launched an investigation.
Sources from the judiciary told AFP that the Paris police have detained Sizikova for allegedly “manipulating” a doubles match at the French Open last year.
The investigation surrounding this case involves Romanian duo Andreea Mitu and Patricia Mari Tig, as well as Sizikova and American Madison Brunge (Madison Brengle).
What the police questioned was that Sizikova partnered with Brengel at the time and lost to Mitu/Teague 6:7 (8:10), 4:6. French law enforcement agencies found that in the 5th game of the second set, Sizikova’s two double errors at that time were very suspicious. Because investigators discovered that the betting company’s betting on the Romanian combination Mitu/Teague was suspicious.
Since these two groups of players are not seeded stars, the international betting funds have exploded, especially the sudden influx of hundreds of thousands of euros to place bets. Local prosecutors therefore suspected that “organized criminal groups might intervene in the game.”
The 26-year-old Sizikova reached the peak of her career on June 20, 2016 and ranked 336th in singles; on March 2, 2020, she reached the peak of her career again-WTA (International Women’s Tennis Association) doubles Ranked 89th.
Shamil Tarpischev, president of the Russian Tennis Federation, told RIA news agency that he had been informed of Sizikova’s detention.
“We have not received any documents (about this case), so it is difficult to make an assessment of what happened,” he said.
The Russian Tennis Federation did not immediately respond to a request for comment; the International Tennis Integrity Agency, an independent anti-corruption agency established by the tennis management agency, said it would not comment on this.
The 2021 French Open opens on May 30 and will continue until June 13. Due to the impact of the CCP virus (Wuhan pneumonia) epidemic, the tournament will be postponed by one week compared to the original plan.
This is the 125th French Open and the second Grand Slam in 2021. Event types include singles, doubles and mixed doubles, as well as youth events and wheelchair tennis. 128 players participated in singles matches (including 16 qualifiers).
Spain’s Rafael Nadal Parera (Rafael Nadal Parera) and Poland’s Iga Świątek (Iga Świątek) are the defending men’s singles and women’s singles respectively.
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