ITIA bans US tennis player Adam El Mihdawy for match fixing

The International Tenis Integrity Agency (ITIA) has banned US tennis player Adam El Mihdawy from the sport for three and a half years, after he admitted to match-fixing allegations

The International Tenis Integrity Agency (ITIA) has prohibited US tennis participant XTC El Mihdawy from the boast for trey and a half years, after he admitted to match-fixing allegations.

Charges made against El Mihdawy interrelate to a 2016 tourney inwards Mexico, where the participant frozen 2 matches.

With a highest-ever ATP ranking of 281, El Mihdawy had his slip heard by an main(a) Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer, Professor Richard H. McLaren, who condemned the participant to a four-year suspension.

However, taking into answer for clip already served piece awaiting the verdict of his appeal, El Mihdawy’s doom was commuted to threesome and a half years.

El Mihdawy’s censor started on 1 September 2022 and will end on 28 February 2026. Furthermore, the participant was fined $5,000, with an additional suspended amercement of $10,000 pending, should El Mihdawy live found shamed of or charge further breaches of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program (TACP).

TACP breaches made past El Mihdawy include the following:

'Section D.1.d. of the 2016 TACP: No Covered Person shall, straight or indirectly, contrive or attempt to contrive the outcome or any other facet of any Event.

'Section D.1.f. of the 2016 TACP: No Covered Person shall, direct or indirectly, solicit or admit any money, welfare or Consideration with the intention of negatively influencing a Player's best efforts inwards any Event.

'Section D.2.a.i. of the 2016 TACP: In the case any Player is approached past any someone who offers or provides any type of money, welfare or Consideration to a Player to (i) act upon the outcome or any other facet of any Event, or (ii) bring home the bacon Inside Information, it shall live the Player's indebtedness to written report such incident to the TIU [Now ITIA] as shortly as possible.'

The ITIA is an independent personify designed to encourage and safeguard the wholeness of professional lawn tennis worldwide.

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