The ITIA has confirmed suspensions for 2 tennis gamers and one official.
The ITIA has confirmed sanctions for 2 gamers and one official (Picture: Getty)
The Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company has confirmed a four-year and 10-month ban for Serbian tennis participant Mila Masic. The 28-year-old admitted to fixing 4 of her personal matches, and to receiving cost for these fixes in 2024. Masic additionally admitted conspiring to commit corrupt offences, and failure to report corrupt approaches.
The previous world No. 875 has additionally been fined £15,000 ($20,000), of which £3.77k ($5k) is suspended. Masic accepted this agreed sanction with the ITIA, and waived her proper to a listening to earlier than an unbiased Anti-Corruption Listening to Officer.
Masic has been provisionally suspended since December 24, 2025. Time served throughout this era will likely be credited in direction of the suspension. This implies the Serb’s ban will finish on October 23, 2030, topic to the compensation of excellent fines.
The ITIA additionally introduced suspensions for an additional tennis participant, and for an official. German participant Jana Vanik has been banned for one yr and 4 months, and fined £1.1k ($1.5k) for failing to co-operate with an ITIA investigation.
The physique mentioned that the 23-year-old “refused to co-operate with the ITIA after a parallel investigation uncovered potential breaches of the TACP.” A former world No. 1257, Vanik was additionally charged with failing to report data or suspicion of energetic corruption.
Vanik was charged in February of this yr. After she didn’t reply to the ITIA fees, the German was sanctioned beginning on March 21. Vanik’s suspension will finish on July 20, 2027, additionally topic to compensation of excellent fines.
Assylbek Kassym, an accredited national-level tennis official from Kazakhstan, who additionally labored in administration and match assist, has obtained a one-year suspension and a £7.5k ($10k) effective, of which £5k ($7k) is suspended, additionally after failing to co-operate with an ITIA investigation.
The ITIA mentioned they “uncovered proof that Kassym had made corrupt approaches to gamers in 2025, leading to an investigation”. The official was initially attentive to ITIA inquiries however then “withdrew from communications with ITIA investigators, earlier than ceasing to interact with the method totally.”
Regardless of a number of makes an attempt the ITIA made to contact Kassym, the official didn’t reply to the discover of cost. Kassym’s sanction entered into impact on March 19, and ends on March 18, 2027, topic to compensation of excellent fines.
Whereas banned, all three people can’t play in, coach at, officiate, or attend any tennis occasion authorised or sanctioned by the ATP, WTA, ITF, Tennis Australia, French Tennis Federation, Wimbledon, the USTA, or any nationwide affiliation. All three had been sanctioned below the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program.
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