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MADRID (Reuters) -
Spanish tennis player Enrique Lopez Perez has been banned from
the sport for eight years for his involvement in match-fixing
activities in three separate instances in 2017, the Tennis
Integrity Unit (TIU) said on Tuesday.
The 29-year-old Perez, who reached a career-high singles ranking
of 154 in 2018 and a best doubles ranking of 135 last year, was
also fined $25,000.
"The disciplinary case was heard by anti-corruption hearing
officer Richard McLaren on 5 November 2020," the TIU said in a
statement.
"He found that Enrique Lopez Perez breached the rules of the
Tennis Anti-corruption Programme three times at tournaments in
2017, with two further charges unproven."
Perez was provisionally suspended in December, 2019, and will
not be able to attend or play in any sanctioned tennis event for
the next eight years.
(Reporting by Sudipto Ganguly in Mumbai; editing by Ed Osmond)
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