The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) has found Argentinian tennis player Nicolas Arreche guilty of match-fixing, banning him for four years

The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) has found Argentinian tennis player Nicolas Arreche guilty of match-fixing, banning him for quartet years.

Arreche, who had a career-high ATP singles ranking of 567, was found to experience breached the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program rules on 2 counts, and has also been fined $8,000. The incidents took shoes at events betwixt 2017 and 2019, and the player was found to feature contrived, or attempted to contrive, the outcome of multiple lawn tennis matches. He was also found guilty of a second offence, for weakness to study spoil approaches to the ITIA.

Professor Richard McLaren, the main(a) Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer ruling over the case, passed a ruling prohibiting Arreche from playing in, or attending, any lawn tennis event authorised or sanctioned by an international governing body. The censor stretches from the appointment of the player’s provisional suspension, which started on 24 Apr 2021, to 23 Apr 2025.

This is the indorsement such ruling handed downwards by the ITIA interior the yesteryear month, with Mexican tennis player Mauricio Astorga found guilty of similar match-fixing offences. He was handed a to a greater extent lenient ruling, banning him from the boast for triad years, and fining him $1,500.

Tennis continues to fill an unwanted spot over match-fixing scandals in recent years. Between 2018 and 2020, quintuplet players received bans for taking piece in match-fixing activities, piece former mankind number tierce Nikolay Davydenko was cleared of allegations against him rearward inward 2008.

On a wider scale, a come of 26,000 matches were the topic of an investigation inwards 2016 followers claims of suspicious betting activities, at major tournaments such as Wimbledon, past Italian and Russian betting syndicates.