European Sports Security Association flags tennis and football in integrity report

iGaming Business – The European Sports Security Association (ESSA) has highlighted tennis and football as the two sports that generated the most unusual betting patterns during 2013. In its ESSA Integrity Report 2014, the organisation recorded 148 unusual betting patterns, with an additional 30 alerts found to be suspicious and subsequently referred to the relevant sporting and regulatory authorities. Of the alerts registered in 2013, 44% were in relation to tennis while 38% referred to unusual betting in football. Snooker was the next highest sport, having accumulated 3.5% of all alerts in the last year. A betting pattern is only…