RUSSIAN player Sergei Krotiouk was on Thursday banned from tennis for life for match-fixing, the third man in the last two years to receive the sanction.
Krotiouk, 34, and ranked at a lowly 789 in the world having risen to a career-high 486 in 2009, was also fined US$60,000 after being found guilty of 41 violations, the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) revealed.
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