(Reuters) – Chilean coach and former player Sebastian Rivera has been banned for life and fined $250,000 after being found guilty of a record 64 match-fixing offences, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) said yesterday.
The agency said it was the highest number of match-fixing offences ever detected for a player by the ITIA or its predecessor the Tennis Integrity Unit.
Rivera reached a career high ATP ranking of 705 before becoming a coach. The ITIA said he had “failed to engage meaningfully” with the disciplinary process. He was provisionally suspended in June.
