A Chinese tennis player who competed in Hong Kong last year has been banned for 12 years and fined US$110,000 for a match-fixing spree involving 22 matches over a five-month period.<\/p>\n
The International Tennis Integrity Agency said Pang Renlong had admitted to fixing five of his own matches in lower-level events and making \u201ccorrupt approaches\u201d to players in 11 more matches, six of which were also fixed.<\/p>\n
Officials said the match-fixing happened from May through September 2024. During that period, the 25-year-old played in various ITF tournaments in Turkey, Hong Kong and mainland China and lost in qualifying for one ATP Challenger event, the Jinan Open in China.<\/p>\n
Pang played in the ITF Men\u2019s 25 tournament in Causeway Bay in August 2024, losing 6-0, 6-2 to South Korea\u2019s Shin Woo-bin, who was ranked 697th in the world at the time.<\/p>\n
Officials did not list the fixed matches linked to Pang, whose career-high ranking was 1,316th last year. His suspension is expected to run through 2036, including time already spent under a provisional suspension. Of his US$110,000 fine, US$70,000 was suspended.<\/p>\n
He is banned from playing in, coaching at or attending any event organized by major tennis bodies or national federations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Chinese tennis player who competed in Hong Kong last year has been banned for 12 years and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":460269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[210200,210203,74,210199,8464,196573,210205,210202,210204,171082,210201,203667,210198,15243,62,1464,24922,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-460268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp-challenger-event","9":"tag-causeway-bay","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-chinese-tennis-player","12":"tag-hong-kong","13":"tag-international-tennis-integrity-agency","14":"tag-itf-mens-tournament","15":"tag-itf-tournaments","16":"tag-jinan-open","17":"tag-match-fixing","18":"tag-pang-renlong","19":"tag-quentin-folliot","20":"tag-shin-woo-bin","21":"tag-south-korea","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-tennis","24":"tag-turkey","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115752630118064146","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}