Sportradar Secures Snooker Integrity Brief

The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), the governing body for both snooker and billiards worldwide, has selected Sportradar to provide its integrity-focused services for the next three years.

The partnership will see Sportradar apply its Fraud Detection System over snooker’s thousands of matches each year, as well as provide an annual Education Workshop to WPBSA stakeholders.

Commenting on the new partnership, WPBSA vice chairman,  Nigel Mawer QPM said: “We have had the chance to work with Sportradar over the last few years so we were delighted we could convert that experience into a stronger and closer relationship. Sportradar continue to develop new services and improve the sharpness of their existing products, which means that this partnership should enable us to preserve the most robust defences against those who would look to undermine our sport”.

Sportradar’s managing director, Integrity Services, Andreas Krannich added: “We have really enjoyed working closely with snooker’s world governing body. Fans and stakeholders of the WPBSA should feel reassured that they have such a committed and forward-looking team protecting these two sports. This development is really encouraging and we look forward to doing our bit to ensure snooker remains an exciting, world class sport”

Sportradar Integrity Services have partnerships with a number of key sporting stakeholders including UEFA, AFC, World Rugby, ICC, NBA and NHL, as well as a new deal with MotoGP, announced last week.

In total, Sportradar currently monitors over 230 leagues and competitions worldwide.