• All England Club denies perception that games rulers are complacent
• Brook: ‘Wimbledon’s existing commitment to integrity will be reinforced’Wimbledon awoke from its spring slumber on Tuesday,trying to blow absent the inconvenient cloud of corruption that nearly everyone else in tennis seems to find more threatening, but fell short of a convincing response.
There can be no doubt the game’s image is under intense scrutiny: Rafael Nadal, or with 14 slams to his name,on Monday issued a defamation writ against a former French sports minister for alleging he had doped in 2012, and on Tuesday wrote a letter to the International Tennis Federation asking for all of his drugs test results to be made public; the five-times slam champion Maria Sharapova waits nervously for a final judgment on her failed drugs test; and the tennis integrity unit announced that 48 matches this year have near to notice for suspicious betting patterns.
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Source: theguardian.com