Tennis players are to be given 48 hours to tell the authorities if they are approached about throwing matches and risk punishment if they fail do so. The new 48-hour rule will be adopted by the board of the ATP Tour at its next meeting in November, and will be backed up by a new 'integrity unit'.
This comes after Andy Murray told the BBC that matches on the men's ATP Tour are being thrown and that all players are aware of it.
"It is pretty disappointing for all the players, but everyone knows that it goes on," said the top-20 ranked Scot.
Murray is the second British tennis player to claim that match fixing goes on, following former British number one Tim Henman's comments on BBC TV about players being asked to influence the outcome of matches.
The response by the Tennis chiefs shows that something needs to be done to prevent the reputation of the game being dragged through the gutter.
Tennis chiefs battle match-fixers
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