Nick Lindahl, a former tennis player and coach pleaded guilty at the Australian court. He was charged with game fixing in a game against Andrew Corbitt at the Toowoomba Futures tournament last September 2013.
According to The Guardian, Lindhal was born in Elebeena, a suburb of Lake Macquarie in Sweden. Everybody saw him as a promising junior in the tennis league. At an early age of seventeen, he was already invited to attend the Australias Davis Cup team for a training in Switzerland. In 2009, he defeated Bernard Tomic in the Australian Open play offs to went on for his second grand slam event. In 2010, Lindahl was ranked as the 187th player in world.
Things are going good for the young player but everything crashed when he advised two other people namely Mathew Fox and Ryan Wolfenden that he was going to tank a tennis match for them to bet against him, this was according to police prosecutor Kate Young during a trial last 2013. The prosecutor revealed to the court that Sportingbet became suspicious and stopped the betting when a large amount of bet were placed on what was thought to be a minor match between Lindahl and an unranked player Corbitt as reported by ABC.
The allegations also include Lindahl approaching Corbitt and offered him to tank the game and get a payment in return. The offer includes Corbitt getting higher ATP points and making his ranking bigger and getting better tennis matches in the future. But Corbitt declined the offer and instead informed match officials of the proposition. Following this, an investigation was launched by the Tennis Integrity Unit.
Nine months have past after the match, police were able to intercept a call between Fox and Lindahl. The tennis player was heard encouraging Fox to get rid of the data found in the computer and mobile phone. Lindahl has pleaded guilty on using corrupt conduct and information to bet on an event but pleaded not guilty to concealing conducts that corrupts a betting outcome of an event. It will be on April 15 that magistrate Micelle Goodwin will hand down her sentence and decision.
