LONDON — Chinese language tennis participant Pan Renrong has been suspended for 12 years and fined $110,000 for match-fixing, taking part in 22 matches in 5 months.
The Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company introduced Friday that the 25-year-old Pang admitted to fixing 5 of his matches at lower-level occasions and making “unauthorized approaches” to gamers in an extra 11 matches, six of which had been additionally match-fixed.
Based on ITIA, the match-fixing occurred between Could and September 2024. Throughout that interval, Pan competed in numerous ITF tournaments in Turkey, Hong Kong, and mainland China, however misplaced within the qualifying spherical of China’s Jinan Open, one of many ATP Challenger tournaments.
The ITIA didn’t checklist any match-fixing matches associated to Pan, whose career-high rating was 1,316th final 12 months. His ban, which incorporates the interval he was already beneath interim suspension, is ready to final till 2036. Of the $110,000 effective, $70,000 was suspended.
He’s prohibited from taking part in, teaching or taking part in occasions sponsored by main tennis organizations or nationwide federations.
Final week, the ITIA introduced that it had handed French participant Quentin Foliot a 20-year ban for match-fixing and recruiting different gamers “on behalf of a match-fixing syndicate.” He’s the sixth participant to be suspended for his alleged involvement with the group.
