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A TIU investigation confirmed that the 24-year-old placed
bets on matches through online accounts between February 2012
and June 2015. None of the bets involved matches in which
Lestienne, a career-high 164th in the men's singles world
rankings, played.
World tennis was rocked in January by allegations that the
game's authorities had failed to deal with widespread
match-fixing in the sport.
The authorities rejected media reports that 16 players who have
been ranked in the top 50 had been repeatedly flagged to the TIU
over suspicions they had thrown matches in the past decade.
The TIU was established in 2008 to enforce the sport's zero
tolerance policy toward gambling related corruption.
(Reporting by Shravanth Vijayakumar in Bengaluru, editing by Ed
Osmond)
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