It has been revealed 84 per cent of the 37 incidents of potentially manipulated betting came in the sport, representing the seventh consecutive quarter in which tennis alerts accounted for a vast majority of the ESSA’s integrity statistics.

The ESSA, the organisation which guards against illegal gambling and match-fixing in sport, issues alerts to betting regulators and sporting governing bodies if its systems detect potential foul play.

In the third quarter of this year, 31 alerts were flagged in tennis, with three coming in football.

The other three were made up of one each from table tennis, beach volleyball and volleyball, according to the ESSA.

Eighty-three per cent of alerts in the second quarter also came in tennis.

In February, ESSA reported that nearly three-quarters of suspicious betting activity in the entirety of 2015 involved tennis.

ESSA chairman Mike O’Kane admitted it was a worrying trend ahead of the publishing of the Tennis Review Panel’s interim report in 2017, which will review all aspects of the sport's anti-corruption protocols, structures and resources.

O’Kane also claimed that, although the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) had made “welcome additions” to their team, the “implementation of any wider recommendations unfortunately looks to be some way off”.

“Our Q3 2016 integrity statistics follow much the same pattern as the previous six quarters, with tennis alerts far exceeding that of any other sport,” O’Kane said.

“ESSA and its members have recently engaged with the Tennis Review Panel, set up by the sport in January to review all aspects of its anti-corruption protocols following the integrity revelations reported by BuzzFeed and the BBC, which used ESSA integrity data.

“The Panel expects to complete its interim report in the first quarter of 2017, a year after it was set up, and which will then be followed by another period of consultation before a final report is published.

“While the TIU has made some welcome additions to its investigatory team, the implementation of any wider recommendations unfortunately looks to be some way off.”

The release of the ESSA report comes after it was revealed one match at both Wimbledon and the US Open, two of the four Grand Slams on the international calendar, were among 96 flagged to the TIU between July and September.

Allegations of widespread match-fixing in tennis were revealed on the eve of the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the year, in January.