French participant Leny Mitjana has been suspended for 10 years over his involvement in match-fixing, the Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company (ITIA) stated on Friday.
Mitjana, 29, with a career-high world rating of 458 in 2018, denied all costs associated to the fixing of matches in 2017 and 2018, and a listening to was held in November, 2023.
“The Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company (ITIA) can as we speak verify that French tennis participant Leny Mitjana has been suspended from the game for a interval of ten years and fined $20,000 for 11 breaches of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program (TACP),” the ITIA assertion stated.
The sanction is linked to a prison case involving a match-fixing syndicate in Belgium, and Mitjana’s breaches embrace the facilitation of wagering, contriving the end result of matches, influencing different gamers to not make their greatest efforts in matches, and failing to report corrupt approaches.
Mitjana’s suspension will run from the date of the choice, Dec. 22, 2023, till 2033.
