What to Watch on Friday at the Australian Open

Once again, players and officials played down the controversial claims.

Around the world, players, commentators and fans echoed the call of Roger Federer, who wants to know names of those suspected of match-fixing in a growing scandal that one ex-pro described as a “major wake-up call for the world of tennis”. The player had requested anonymity before talking to the BBC.

“Hopefully because the world is watching, something will be done about it. We need to flag who these players were”, said Fernandez, a three-time Grand Slam finalist, victor of two Grand Slam women’s doubles titles and two Olympic gold medals.

Indeed, while Tuttosport claimed that the allegations were found in documents that are part of an investigation into match-fixing by prosecutors in Cremona, they did not present any of the documents or any other supporting evidence and stressed that Djokovic was not under investigation.

Williams has had so much success for such a long time that even in a second-round match she can set a record at the season’s first Grand Slam event. He said he refused the offer.

Roger Federer was already a long way clear at the top of the list of men with the most wins in Grand Slam singles matches, so becoming the first to 300 nearly seemed like a secondary consideration.

The former French player spoke out after an Italian newspaper said Djokovic could have thrown the second round match 6-3, 6-2. “Names, statements, settlements. Payments, pictures, something”.

He reached the milestone at Rod Laver Arena on Friday, when he moved into the fourth round of the Australian Open with a 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 victory over Grigor Dimitrov. It was a great test. It was a physical match, a lot of exchanges from the baseline.

Goffin ended up winning the match in four sets.

In addition, every match will be available online via Watch ESPN, with Tennis Channel also providing online coverage.

I know that a game involving Nikolay Davydenko and Martin Vassallo Arguello was previously investigated for suspicious betting activity.

“The Tennis Racket”, a report published on Sunday by BuzzFeed, alleges that some of the sport’s top professional players threw matches on the order of gambling rings based in Russian Federation and Italy.

But Stakhovsky wasn’t buying that. They do their job and to the best of their knowledge.

Murray said he felt sorry for innocent players being accused of match-fixing but believes more accountability is the only way to root out corruption.

“That can be maybe something good for tennis also”.

At the time, Djokovic said: “I couldn’t give my 100%, not even 30% of my possibilities”.

Djokovic added on Wednesday that he had said all he wanted to about the corruption allegations and refused to discuss it any further, except to say that he was disappointed the sport was faced with questions about integrity.

But, there are no excuses and match-fixing at any level is a serious transgression.

“We have to do something maybe to stop it before it happens”, he told CNN.

“But there’s always a danger, you know”.

As a match-fixing controversy continued to reverberate at Melbourne Park, Williams swatted Hsieh Su-Wei 6-1 6-2 to reach the third round, as she seeks a record-equalling 22nd Major title.