REUTERS: Unranked Spaniard Gerard Platero Rodriguez has become the first tennis player convicted of 'courtsiding', which involves sending live scoring data from a match to a third party for betting purposes.
The Tennis Integrity Unit said in a statement https://www.tennisintegrityunit.com/media-releases/gerard-joseph-platero-rodriguez-suspended-and-fined-courtsiding-betting-and-non-co-operation-offences that Rodriguez, 25, had been suspended for four years and fined US$15,000 for courtsiding, betting and non-cooperation offences.Six months of the ban were suspended on condition of there being no further breaches of the tennis anti-corruption programme.
The ITU said the player had acted as a courtsider at an ITF M15 tournament held in Pittsburgh in July 2019.The Spaniard also placed 75 online bets on matches during June 2019, in a clear breach of rules banning any form of betting on tennis.It said he had also failed to engage or cooperate with the investigation and disciplinary process.
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