I attended this match live and I've got three comments about the match: 1. Kokkinakis wouldn't have fixed this match. This challenger match occurred in Playford, South Australia, several minutes away from his home city of Adelaide. There's no way Thanasi would play a fixed match in front of his home crowd. 2. I saw Takahashi sitting in the crowd right after this match and he had this sorrow around him, likely due to putting his heart into the match. 3. I watched the match a few metres behind Thanasi's coach and team and I could hear what they were saying. Often if was comments about how Thanasi was choking the match and supportive comments. I doubt this would occur if the match was fixed. With these three details in mind, it's considerably unlikely that this match was fixed.
he often do fix on challengers in my opinion , this year especially second half of it i noticed this and made 2 good bets against him on challengers in autumn and won . you can see how he plays well at all the atp tournaments this year , but every time loses challengers when have good odds against him . he got some raiting this year so challengers ,which he was announced in advance , became uninteresting to him from the point of view of raiting points and prize money . and no reason to give everything and risk injuries , when next week you play atp tournament . so thats it , he doesnt try to win on challengers sometimes. and on atp tournaments he plays full power
No, Kookinakis just choked, because if you fix a set, you won't risk to have like 7 set points, because one double fault from the opponent, or one unforced error and you win the set... too risky for a fix. If you fix a set, you lose it like 6/2 and play like shit
