By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Tuesday, April 9, 2024 Committing corruption will price Aaron Cortes a 15-year tennis ban.
The Spaniard has been suspended for 15 years after admitting to 35 breaches of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program, the Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company introduced at present.
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Cortes, who reached a career-high singles rating of 955 in September 2017, admitted to 35 breaches of the TACP between 2016 and 2018, together with fixing the end result of matches, accepting cash to contrive the end result of matches, failure to report corrupt approaches, wagering on tennis, and offering cash to match officers in change for a wild card.
The ATP participant web page for Cortes lists his profession earnings at $21,854, which can effectively have been eclipsed by what he earned committing corruption.
The 29-year-old Cortes “co-operated absolutely with the ITIA investigation and accepted an agreed sanction, waiving proper to a listening to earlier than an unbiased Anti-Corruption Listening to Officer,” the ITIA mentioned in an announcement.
Cortes’ suspension started on March 27, 2024 and ends at midnight on March 26, 2039.
Through the interval of ineligibility, Cortes is prohibited from enjoying in, teaching at, or attending any tennis occasion licensed or sanctioned by the members of the ITIA (ATP, ITF, WTA, Tennis Australia, Fédération Française de Tennis, Wimbledon and USTA) or any nationwide affiliation.
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