{"id":535765,"date":"2026-03-12T15:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/535765\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T15:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:12:16","slug":"tuayeva-admits-match-fixing-hit-with-3-year-ban-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/535765\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuayeva Admits Match-Fixing, Hit with 3-Year Ban \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Pagliaro | Wednesday, March 11, 2026<br \/>Photo credit: Alana Tuayeva\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>INDIAN WELLS\u2014Fixing two matches will cost Alana Tuayeva\u00a0more than three years of her career.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itftennis.com\/en\/players\/alana-tuayeva\/800370639\/rus\/wt\/S\/overview\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.itftennis.com\/en\/players\/alana-tuayeva\/800370639\/rus\/wt\/S\/overview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Russian player Tuayeva\u00a0<\/a>was hit with a three-year, nine-month ban and fined $30,000 (of which $21,000 is suspended), after admitting to fixing two of her Challenger-level matches, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itia.tennis\/news\/sanctions\/russian-tennis-player-alana-tuayeva-accepts-tennis-anti-corruption-program-sanction\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.itia.tennis\/news\/sanctions\/russian-tennis-player-alana-tuayeva-accepts-tennis-anti-corruption-program-sanction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the International Tennis Integrity Agency announced.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Pro-Player-Gear-610X150-03.jpg\" alt=\"tennis express pro player gear\" class=\"wp-image-54451\"  data-\/><\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Russian, who never cracked the Top 1000 in the world, 26-year-old Tuayeva admitted to all of the ITIA charges, including fixing two of their own matches at ITF World Tennis Tour level in 2023 and 2024, according to the ITIA.<\/p>\n<p>Tuayeva, who reached a career-high world singles ranking of 1282 in September 2025, accepted the ban and waived her right to a hearing on the charges before an independent Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer.<\/p>\n<p>Tuayeva was provisionally suspended on December 19th, 2025 so her suspension is set to expire on September 18th, 2029, subject to repayment of outstanding fines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Wednesday, March 11, 2026Photo credit: Alana Tuayeva\u00a0 INDIAN WELLS\u2014Fixing two matches will cost Alana&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-535765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}