The founder of the soon to be launched International Premier Tennis League (IPTL) is planning to meet with the sport’s integrity unit in London next month to try to ensure the competition is not affected by illegal gambling and spot-fixing.

The league, due to start in late 2014, has been compared in format with cricket’s Indian Premier League, a competition recently em-broiled in a spot-fixing scandal.

The IPTL will take place in six as yet undecided cities across Asia and will see some of the sport’s biggest names drafted into teams to play against each other in one-set shootout tennis.

The competition’s founder, Indian doubles specialist Mahesh Bhupathi, said they will do all they can to ensure the league is unaffected by the problems that have tarnished cricket.

“I have some meetings with people who are part of the Tennis Integrity Unit in London next month,” Bhupathi said.

“We will try and batten down as much as we can to ensure we do not have these issues.”

Bhupathi said a number of cities were under consideration to form teams for the tennis league including Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Jakarta, Manilla, Bangalore, Calcutta, Doha and Dubai.

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