Russian tennis participant Yana Sizikova has been cleared of match fixing after being taken into police custody on the 2021 French Open, her lawyer says.
Sizikova, a doubles specialist at the moment ranked No.51 on the planet, was arrested as a part of an investigation into match-fixing allegations courting again to the 2020 event at Roland Garros.
She has continued to play on the ladies’s tennis tour since then, and reached the second spherical of this 12 months’s Australian Open alongside doubles accomplice Anastasia Potapova.
“After two-and-a-half years of investigation, the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office definitively closed the case on 11 April 2023, considering that criminal proceedings could not be initiated, as the facts of which Ms. Sizikova was accused could not be established,” her lawyer, Frederic Belot, advised Reuters.
Belot mentioned Sizikova would participate on this 12 months’s French Open, which begins at Roland Garros on Sunday.
Sizikova has two doubles title to her identify, the newest in Prague in July final 12 months.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
