Nigel Willerton, the director of integrity of the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU), will be joined by Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) executive chairman and President Chris Kermode at the oral evidence session.

They will appear alongside Mark Young, the vice chairman and chief legal and media officer of the ATP, at the hearing in room 15 of the Palace of Westminster.

Tennis has faced an image crisis since allegations of match-fixing were revealed on the eve of the Australian Open in January.

An investigation by the BBC and Buzzfeed claimed that 16 players, ranked in the top 50 in the world across the past decade, have been repeatedly flagged as having potentially thrown matches.

It was also alleged that the players were allowed to continue playing despite reports being made to the TIU, which is a joint initiative of the Grand Slam Board, the International Tennis Federation (ITF), the ATP World Tour and the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). 

The Committee has made reference to a match between Russia’s Nikolay Davydenko and Argentina’s Martin Vassallo Arguello at the Orange Prokom tournament in Sopot, Poland, in 2007.

A suspicious numbers of bets were placed on Arguello to win and Davydenko eventually retired through injury, despite being a set up.

Both players were cleared of any wrongdoing.

"The Committee will explore how the governing bodies of tennis address match-fixing, and any weaknesses in the governance of the game, nationally and internationally," said a brief on the UK Parliament's website.

"In January 2016, the BBC and BuzzFeed News published a report titled ‘The Tennis Racket’, alleging that sport’s governing bodies have been warned repeatedly about a core group of 16 players - all of whom rank in the top 50 - but none has faced any sanctions and more than half of them played at the Australian Open held in January 2016.

"The Association of Tennis Professionals have also been criticised as having been told by Betfair and other bookmakers of the threat of gambling corruption in tennis over a period of several years before the situation was brought to light at the Orange Prokom tournament in Sopot, Poland."

The Committee is chaired by Conservative Jesse Norman and is a cross-party affair with five other politicians from the UK's ruling party present.

Four Labour MPs and one from the Scottish National Party make up the group.

The Committee chooses its own subjects of inquiry and will produce a report to outline its findings, which will include recommendations to the Government.

The Government must then respond to all of the report's proposals within two months.

Earlier this month, the European Sport Security Association revealed that three quarters of "suspicious alerts" issued about gambling activity in 2015 involved tennis.

This followed the revelation that two umpires, Kazakhstan's Kirill Parfenov and Croatia's Denis Pitner, had been sanctioned for betting offences last year.

Parfenov was banned for life with Pitner given a 12-month sanction, with the ITF severely criticised for only announcing the punishments this month.

It has been reported that the ITF, which is headquartered in London, will be summoned to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee in the Spring to explain this situation, with allegations that they had handed out the bans "in secret".

There was further embarrassment when it was confirmed that Pitner had worked at the 2015 US Open despite his suspension.