ITIA bans Dutch tennis coach Max Wenders for 12 years for match-fixing

Dutch tennis coach Max Wenders has been banned from the sport for 12 years after admitting multiple match-fixing charges

Dutch lawn tennis four-in-hand Max Wenders has been prohibited from the boast for 12 years after admitting multiple match-fixing charges.

The train has been banned past the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA). He also admitted to destroying evidence requested past the ITIA (then the Tennis Integrity Unit) and weakness to cover a spoil approach.

The example was originally heard by Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer (AHO) Professor Richard McLaren in April 2021, who ruled that Wenders should also make up a $12,000 fine. Publication of the countenance was delayed after submissions from the coach’s effectual team, but McLaren has at present lifted the prohibition.

Wenders is now prohibited from playing in, coaching job at or attending any lawn tennis event authorised or sanctioned past the sport’s governing bodies for a stop of 12 years. That point began on 28 April 2021, the particular date of the decision.

Wenders admitted to ternary breaches of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Programme (TACP) rules, I of which states that “No Covered Person shall, flat or indirectly, contrive, effort to contrive, hold to contrive, or complot to contrive the outcome, or any other aspect, of any Event.”

Another of the breached rules states that “No Covered Person shall, directly or indirectly, alleviate any Player to non exercise his or her topper efforts inwards any Event.”

Wenders has reportedly worked with several players on the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Tour as a coach, assistant or hitting partner, and is the former four-in-hand and young man of American Sofia Kenin, who reached a career-high humankind ranking of 4th in Mar 2020.