LONDON — French tennis participant Samuel Bensoussan had his ban from the game for match-fixing elevated to 3 years on enchantment, the Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company stated on Wednesday.
Bensoussan had initially been banned for one yr and 11 months for fixing singles and doubles matches in lower-tier occasions for an organized crime syndicate primarily based in Belgium.
The Court docket of Arbitration for Sport elevated the ban to 3 years for the 34-year-old Bensoussan, whose ATP singles rating peaked at No. 405 in June 2018.
The ITIA revealed the CAS verdict which acknowledged the “investigations uncovered a felony group that corrupted at the least 181 gamers worldwide and concerned the manipulation of at the least 375 tennis matches.”
A felony case in Belgium led to a five-year jail sentence for the syndicate chief.
Bensoussan appealed to CAS to overturn his preliminary ban and the ITIA requested the sports activities court docket to extend it to 6 and a half years.
The three CAS judges declined to order Bensoussan to repay $1,150 tennis investigators claimed he obtained for fixing one of many matches in 2018.
