LONDON — Six extra present or former tennis gamers linked to a match-fixing syndicate in Belgium got suspensions of various lengths — one was barred for 15 years — and fined, the Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company stated Friday.
That brings the whole to about 30 gamers punished for his or her connections to the syndicate run by Grigor Sargsyan, who was beforehand given a five-year custodial sentence.
The participant who obtained the longest ban in Friday’s announcement, 34-year-old Agustin Moyano of Argentina, was suspended for 15 years and fined $10,000 after denying the costs and requesting a full listening to.
Moyano was ranked a profession finest 1,343 in 2015.
The 5 different gamers admitted to guidelines breaches associated to matches performed in 2017-18: David Guez, Jerome Inzerillo, Romain Bauvy, Yannick Jankovits and François-Arthur Vibert.
Their suspensions ranged from two years to 5 years, seven months.
Guez, who’s 42, reached the best singles rating of the group, reaching No. 116 in 2010.
He accepted a ban of 4 years and a positive of $25,000, with $17,500 of that quantity suspended.
Guez hasn’t performed an official match since 2018.
He made greater than $800,000 in prize cash, based on the ATP Tour web site.
