A Chinese tennis player who competed in Hong Kong last year has been banned for 12 years and fined US$110,000 for a match-fixing spree involving 22 matches over a five-month period.<\/p>\n
The International Tennis Integrity Agency said Pang Renlong had admitted to fixing five of his own matches in lower-level events and making \u201ccorrupt approaches\u201d to players in 11 more matches, six of which were also fixed.<\/p>\n
Officials said the match-fixing happened from May through September 2024. During that period, the 25-year-old played in various ITF tournaments in Turkey, Hong Kong and mainland China and lost in qualifying for one ATP Challenger event, the Jinan Open in China.<\/p>\n
Pang played in the ITF Men\u2019s 25 tournament in Causeway Bay in August 2024, losing 6-0, 6-2 to South Korea\u2019s Shin Woo-bin, who was ranked 697th in the world at the time.<\/p>\n
Officials did not list the fixed matches linked to Pang, whose career-high ranking was 1,316th last year. His suspension is expected to run through 2036, including time already spent under a provisional suspension. Of his US$110,000 fine, US$70,000 was suspended.<\/p>\n
He is banned from playing in, coaching at or attending any event organized by major tennis bodies or national federations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Chinese tennis player who competed in Hong Kong last year has been banned for 12 years and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[178146,178149,144,178145,5425,113690,178151,178148,178150,142873,178147,172033,178144,1866,99,428,12807],"class_list":["post-361028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-atp-challenger-event","tag-causeway-bay","tag-china","tag-chinese-tennis-player","tag-hong-kong","tag-international-tennis-integrity-agency","tag-itf-mens-tournament","tag-itf-tournaments","tag-jinan-open","tag-match-fixing","tag-pang-renlong","tag-quentin-folliot","tag-shin-woo-bin","tag-south-korea","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361028","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=361028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}