By Richard Pagliaro | @TennisNow | Friday, January 31, 2025
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Corruption will cost six players several years of their prospective playing careers.
Six current and former players have been hit with suspensions and fines for match fixing offenses in what the International Tennis Integrity Agency calls “historic corruption offenses.”
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The sanctions are linked to a criminal case heard in 2023 involving a match-fixing syndicate in Belgium.
Collaboration between the ITIA and Belgian authorities led to a five-year custodial sentence for the leader of the syndicate, Grigor Sargsyan, the ITIA said in a statement.
Read the the full decision in the case here.
Five of the players admitted to breaches, relating to matches played in 2017 and/or 2018. Three French tennis players accepted agreed sanctions, waiving their right to a hearing before an independent…
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