{"id":272684,"date":"2025-11-05T08:52:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/272684\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T08:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:52:15","slug":"jaziri-and-marrero-suspended-for-violating-anti-corruption-policies-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/272684\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaziri and Marrero Suspended for Violating Anti-Corruption Policies \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Richard Pagliaro | Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Photo credit: Keith Allison\/Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n

Malek Jaziri and David Marrero\u2019s pay for play scheme has earned both men suspensions.<\/p>\n

The International Tennis Integrity Agency announced today that Marrero and Jaziri are both suspended for violating Tennis Anti-Corruption Program wildcard rules.<\/p>\n

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Former doubles world No. 5 Marrero admitted to paying and offering to pay for wildcards \u201cfor themselves and\/or their doubles partner on four occasions across 2022 and 2023,\u201d the ITIA announced.<\/p>\n

Jaziri, a former singles No. 42 who owns career wins over Marin Cilic, Grigor Dimitrov and Karen Khachanov and made history as the lowest-ranked Dubai semifinals in 2019, has been suspended for nine months and fined $5,000 (of which $2,500 is suspended), after admitting to involvement in one breach of the TACP\u2019s wildcard rules with Marrero.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 41-year-old Jaziri, the highest-ranked Tunisian man in history and currently captain of Tunisia\u2019s Davis Cup squad, began serving his suspension on October 28th. It will end on July 27, 2026.<\/p>\n

The 45-year-old Marrero\u2019s suspension started on October 21st and will end on May 20th, 2028.<\/p>\n

During their suspensions, Marrero and Jaziri are banned from \u201cplaying in, coaching at, or attending any tennis event authorised or sanctioned by the members of the ITIA (ATP, ITF, WTA, Tennis Australia, F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Fran\u00e7aise de Tennis, Wimbledon and USTA) or any national association,\u201d the ITIA announced.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Tuesday, November 4, 2025Photo credit: Keith Allison\/Wikimedia Commons Malek Jaziri and David Marrero\u2019s pay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-272684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}