The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) has announced a 12-year ban for Chinese tennis player Pang Renlong for fixing—or attempting to fix—more than twenty matches between May and September of last year.
Pang, 25, was also fined $110,000, although $70,000 of that amount has been suspended.
The player, whose career-high ranking was No. 1,316 in the world in 2024, admitted to fixing five of his own matches and to contacting other professional players on 17 occasions to propose similar arrangements, resulting in up to six corrupted matches.
As a result, Pang is banned until November 2036 from playing, coaching, or even attending any match sanctioned by governing bodies such as the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and the International Tennis Federation (ITF), as well as by national tennis associations.
Last week, tennis’s anti-corruption authorities announced an even harsher sanction: a 20-year ban for French player Quentin Folliot, the sixth individual convicted as part of a large-scale investigation into an organized match-fixing network.