Tennis players who have been given life bans for match-fixing

18 January 2016 02:53

The Tennis Integrity Unit has strongly denied suppressing match-fixing allegations, and pointed to its record in issuing sanctions against errant players in recent years.

Here are the three cases in which players have been punished with life bans by the TIU since its inauguration - in the wake of initial match-fixing claims - in 2008:

1 ALEXANDROS JAKUPOVIC

The Greek player was banned for life in December 2015 for five breaches of the TIU's anti-corruption programme. Jakupovic, aged 33 at the time of his ban, played just one ATP World Tour main draw match, losing in three sets to Spain's Alberto Ramos-Vinolas in Kitzbuhel in 2014. Never ranked inside the world's top 300, he also represented his country 29 times in the Davis Cup.

2 DAVID SAVIC

Serbian Savic was banned for life in October 2011 after being found guilty of three anti-corruption violations arising from the previous year. Savic, then 26, never played on the main ATP World Tour and his highest ranking was 363 in 2009. In November 2015, Savic failed to have his life ban overturned at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne.

3 DANIEL KOLLERER

Kollerer became the first player to be banned for life following a TIU investigation in May 2011. The unit found Kollerer guilty of making invitations to other players to fix matches on five occasions. The Austrian reached a career-high world number 55 in 2009, the same year in which he reached the third round of the US Open.

Source: PA