According to media reports, the player who was arrested is 765th-ranked Yana Sizikova of Russia.
A tennis player suspected of match-fixing last year has been arrested during the, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Friday. According to French newspaper Le Parisien, which first reported the story, the player is 765th-ranked Yana Sizikova of Russia. The Reuters news agency also reported Sizikova was arrested, citing the French tennis federation and a police source. The prosecutor’s office confirmed to The Associated Press that a « women’s international player » was in custody, but it did not identify her. The player was arrested Thursday night on charges of « sports bribery and organized fraud for acts likely to have been committed in September 2020, » the prosecutor’s office said.
