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Australian Open tennis junior champion avoids match-fix conviction

Former Australian Open tennis junior champion Oliver Anderson has avoided a conviction for match-fixing.

Anderson, 19, admitted throwing the first set of a match at the Traralgon Challenger tournament in Australia last October.

He was charged by police in January, just days before the Australian Open.

Anderson pleaded guilty and was on Tuesday handed a two-year good behaviour bond by a magistrate in Victoria state.

He had already been provisionally suspended from professional tennis in February pending an investigation by the Tennis Integrity Unit, the organisation responsible for policing the sport.