Earlier, tennis authorities alone allegations that they bootless to accord with boundless match-fixing as the aboriginal admirable bang clash of the year began in Melbourne.
Reports by the BBC and online BuzzFeed Account emerged on Monday alleging that 16 players ranked in the top 50 had been again flagged to the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) over suspicions that they had befuddled matches over the accomplished decade.
The letters said the TIU - set up to badge actionable activities in the action - either bootless to act aloft advice that articular apprehensive behaviour a allotment of players or appoint any sanctions.
Djokovic, afterwards aperture with a win over South Korea's Chung Hyeon, played down the address but he aswell said he was targeted in 2007 to bandy a first-round bout in St Petersburg.
"I was not approached directly. I was approached through humans that were alive with me at that time," he told reporters in Melbourne.
"Of course, we threw it abroad appropriate away. It didn't even get to me, the guy that was aggravating to allocution to me, didn't even get to me directly. There was annihilation out of it.
"In the endure six, seven years, I haven't heard annihilation similar. I alone was never approached directly, so I accept annihilation added to say about that."
Djokovic was reportedly offered $200,000 to bandy the match, in an adventure that gives an acumen into the black apple of match-fixing - which the Serb alleged "a abomination in sport".
Meanwhile, according to the report, all of the accused players, including winners of admirable bang titles, were accustomed to abide competing.
Eight of those appear were arena in the Australian Open, media letters added.
"The Tennis Integrity Unit and the tennis authorities actually adios any advancement that affirmation of match-fixing has been suppressed for any acumen or isn't getting thoroughly investigated," said Chris Kermode, the ATP chairman, at a agilely abiding media appointment in Melbourne.
"And while the BBC and BuzzFeed letters mainly accredit to contest from about 10 years ago, we will investigate any new information, and we consistently do."
The BBC and BuzzFeed Account said they had not called any players because after admission to their phone, coffer and computer records, it was not accessible to actuate whether they took allotment in match-fixing.
They said that the 2007 ATP analysis begin action syndicates in Russia, arctic Italy, and Sicily authoritative hundreds of bags of dollars action on matches board accept were fixed.
Three of these amateur were at Wimbledon, the letters said.
Al Jazeera's Andrew Thomas, advertisement from Sydney, said the letters advance that admitting the attendance of amplified evidence, the ATP bootless to act.
"The Australian Open starts on Monday and the allegations casting an burning adumbration over this tournament," he said. "There is a suspicion over all macho tennis players actuality because we don't absolutely apperceive who is accused of what in the report."
In a arcane address for tennis authorities in 2008, the analysis aggregation said 28 players complex in those amateur should be investigated, but the allegation were never followed up, the account organisations said.
The media letters created a activity at Melbourne Park, home of the Australian Open, and chase bribery scandals in apple football and athletics.
"It's consistently a disappointment if belief appear out like this just afore the big event," said Kermode. "We are assured that the TIU is accomplishing what it can and tackles this affair very, actual seriously."
Tennis authorities accept pumped about $14m into anti-corruption programmes, Kermode added.
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