LONDON — 5 extra tennis gamers linked to a match-fixing syndicate in Belgium have been banned from the game, the Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company stated Thursday.
The costs stem from matches in 2017 and 2018 and “relate to contriving the result of matches, facilitating betting, accepting cash in alternate for not giving finest efforts, and failure to report corrupt approaches,” the ITIA stated in an announcement.
The 5 joined a minimum of 15 different gamers who’ve been suspended for having hyperlinks with the syndicate that was run by Grigor Sargsyan, who was beforehand given a five-year custodial sentence.
The ITIA stated all 5 gamers admitted to breaches and accepted their suspensions.
Iván Endara of Ecuador was suspended for 5 years and fined $15,000. Among the many 5, the 36-year-old Endara had the profession highest world singles rating — No. 367 in July 2015.
Two Mexican gamers — 29-year-old Mauricio Reséndiz DomÃnguez and 35-year-old Raúl IsaÃas Rosas-Zarur — additionally each had been suspended for 5 years and fined $15,000.
One other pair of Mexicans obtained shorter bans: 30-year-old Ivar Aramburu Contreras was suspended for 2 years, two months; and 32-year-old Aitor Aramburu Contreras was suspended for one yr, 10 months
