French tennis player Samuel Bensoussan’s ban for match fixing has been extended by three years following an unsuccessful appeal, the International Tennis Integrity Agency has confirmed.<\/p>\n
Bensoussan was suspended for one year and 11 months last June after an independent anti-corruption hearing officer found the 34-year-old had fixed four matches.<\/p>\n
Bensoussan was also linked to a criminal case involving a match-fixing syndicate in Belgium, and was fined $12,000 (\u00a38,880) in addition to the ban.<\/p>\n
Bensoussan appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to overturn his ban, but it was dismissed with all ITIA charges being upheld.<\/p>\n
CAS then agreed that Bensoussan’s sanction should be increased in line with similar cases, resulting in his suspension being extended until 2030.<\/p>\n
Bensoussan was punished alongside three others players last year – Natthasith Kunsuwan, Jaimee Floyd Angele and Christian Lindell.<\/p>\n
After increasing Bensoussan’s ban, Cas noted that investigations had “uncovered a criminal organisation that corrupted at least 181 players worldwide and involved the manipulation of at least 375 tennis matches”.<\/p>\n
Bensoussan reached a career-high ranking of 405 in June 2018, and has not competed professionally since 2019.<\/p>\n
Suspended individuals are not allowed to play in, coach at, or attend any events organised or sanctioned by World Tennis, the WTA, the ATP, or Grand Slams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French tennis player Samuel Bensoussan’s ban for match fixing has been extended by three years following an unsuccessful…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-694768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}