Three Tennis Players Banned by ITIA for Match-Fixing

Latest in a string of ITIA sanctions

Three Tennis Players Banned by ITIA for Match-Fixing - Friday, November 3rd, 2023 10:32

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Three Tennis Players Banned by ITIA for Match-Fixing that it has banned three players for match-fixing activity.

Three Tennis Players Banned by ITIA for Match-Fixing Three Tennis Players Banned by ITIA for Match-Fixing
  • Timur Khabibulin (Kazakhstan) – 21 charges from 2014 to 2019 – lifetime ban, fined $60,000
  • Sanjar Fayziev (Uzbekistan) – 5 charges in 2018 – three year six months ban (six months suspended), fined $15,000
  • Igor Smilansky (Israel) – 3 charges in 2018 – two year ban, $4,000 fine ($1,000 suspended)

All bans will begin from the date that the players were provisionally suspended (July 25th 2023).

Three Tennis Players Banned by ITIA for Match-Fixing

ITIA Sanctions

Three Tennis Players Banned by ITIA for Match-Fixing Three Tennis Players Banned by ITIA for Match-Fixing Heriberto Morales Churata from Bolivia for six years and fined $10,000 after an investigation found that he manipulated scores for betting purposes. The ITIA revealed that the umpire entered incorrect scores into his handheld device at ITF World Tennis Tour events that took place in 2021 and 2022.

In March, Slovenian player Nastja Kolar and U.S. player Alexandra Riley were found to have committed 25 and 15 breaches of the rules respectively between 2015 and 2020. Both players were provisionally suspended.

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