French Open: Match-fixing investigation launched

French prosecutors have opened an investigation into alleged match-fixing at the French Open.

The ongoing tournament was rocked on Tuesday by the announcement from the prosecutor’s office that the doubles match between Romania’s Andreea Mitu and Patricia Mari and Russian Yana Sizikova and American Madison Brengle was being investigated over alleged match-fixing.

Prosecutors said that the investigation surrounds “fraud in an organised group” and “active and passive corruption”, and was launched last Thursday.

French Open organisers said that it was a matter for the Tennis Integrity Unit to handle, with the TIU declining to comment on Tuesday as is usual with ongoing investigations.

Mitu and Mari won the first-round encounter 7-6 (10-8), 6-4, before being knocked out in the third round on Sunday.