BREAKING: Spain arrests six tennis players and 28 others for alleged match-fixing

SPANISH police have arrested 34 players in connection with an alleged match-fixing ring operating in Spain and Portugal.

Six tennis players are among the arrested, but no one has been named by the interior ministry.

The group is accused of deliberately arranging the loss of tennis matches at at least 17 different events, earning them at least €500,000.

The arrests come after a joint investigation by the BBC and Buzzfeed found wide-spread match-fixing at the upper levels of world tennis, including 16 players who have ranked in the top 50 in the last decade.

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Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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