Categories: Tennis

A Ukrainian tennis player suspended for life for rigging

Ukrainian tennis player Stanislav Poplavskyy has been banned from the sport for life after an investigation by the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) determined that there was participated “on multiple occasions” in match-fixing activities between 2015 and 2019.

Poplavskyy, who was ranked 440th in the world in July 2012, has also been charged and convicted of “transmitting live score data from one match to a third party”, a prohibited practice for gambling purposes, and of failing to report your activities, when asked to do so.

Poplavskyy has accepted all the charges and the Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer Richard McLaren has sanctioned him with a lifetime ban and a fine in addition to $ 10,000. This sanction has started on December 1, 2020, and the player has permanently prohibited from playing or attending any tennis event authorized or sanctioned by the governing bodies of tennis.

It is not the only recent case of suspension since two weeks ago the Bulgarian Aleksandrina Naydenova, Ranked 218th in the world rankings, she was banned from tennis for life after an investigation by the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) determined that she had fixed matches between 2015 and 2019 on multiple occasions.

Gabby Barker

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