RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's Gustavo Tedesco has been banned for two years and three months due to match fixing, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) said on Wednesday.
The 21-year-old was also fined 15,000 U.S. dollars, of which 10,500 dollars is suspended, after admitting to six breaches of the sport's anti-corruption code.
"Tedesco... was found to have contrived the outcome of three ITF World Tennis Tour matches between September and November of 2022, alongside facilitating wagering," the agency said in a statement.
It added that Tedesco, who reached a career-high ITF world singles ranking of 423 in January 2023, had chosen not to appeal the ruling.
The sentence was backdated to January 24 this year, when the provisional suspension began, meaning he will be eligible to return on April 23, 2028.
Former player Gyulnara Nazarova was also suspended for four years and fined 10,000 dollars after a separate investigation revealed evidence of "historic" anti-corruption code breaches in 2019, ITIA said.
The 27-year-old Russian, who reached a career-high world singles ranking of 823 in August 2019 before retiring in 2020, was found guilty of "corrupt approaches to another player in May 2019."
"Nazarova was charged on December 23, 2025, and, following the individual's failure to respond to the ITIA charges, a deemed sanction entered into effect on 10 January 2026," ITIA said. She will be eligible to return on January 9, 2030. ■
