NY Times · Feb 25, 2016
British Panel Focuses on Tennis’s Self-Policing
Photo From left, Mark Young, vice chairman of the ATP Tour, Chris Kermode, chairman of the ATP Tour, and Nigel Willerton, head of the Tennis Integrity Unit, spoke during the Australian Open about match fixing. Credit Shuji Kajiyama/Associated Press Nigel Willerton, head of the Tennis Integrity Unit, told a British parliamentary committee Wednesday that he would recommend that tennis’s anticorruption program have greater independence from the sport’s governing bodies in the future.
Willerton also said that there had been a “huge leap” since 2014 in the number of betting alerts, which are reports of suspicious activity forwarded to the integrity unit by betting companies.