Japanese tennis player gets life ban for match fixing
Japanese tennis player Junn Mitsuhashi has been banned from tennis for life after being found guilty of match fixing. The 27-year-old, who was also fined ?32 lakh ($50,000), had asked players to underperform at international tournaments in South Africa and Nigeria in 2015. Mitsuhashi had also broken gambling rules by placing 76 bets on matches between October and November 2015.
Japanese tennis player Junn Mitsuhashi has been banned for life and fined 50,000 US dollars after being found guilty of match-fixing and betting offences, the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) said on Tuesday.Mitsuhashi, who peaked at 295 in the singles rankings in 2009, was accused of asking Joshua Chetty, a player he had coached, to approach a competitor during an International Tennis Federation (ITF) event in South Africa in November 2015.Using Chetty as an intermediary, Mitsuhashi offered the player 2,000 US dollars to underperform in a singles match and 600 US dollars in a doubles match, the TIU said.The player rejected the offer and reported the approach to the TIU. Under the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program, money or other benefit does not have to change hands to constitute a serious corruption offence, the TIU told Reuters in an email.Chetty was banned for life last September following a separate TIU investigation.