Italian Bracciali banned for life, Starace for 10 years


  • Tennis
  • Thursday, 22 Nov 2018

FILE PHOTO: Canada's Daniel Nestor looks on while facing Italy's Daniele Bracciali and Fabio Fognini during doubles match play at the second round of the Davis Cup tennis tournament in Vancouver, British Columbia April 6, 2013. REUTERS/Ben Nelms/File Photo

LONDON (Reuters) - Italian former world top-50 player Daniele Bracciali has been banned from tennis for life after being found guilty of match-fixing, the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) said on Wednesday.

Bracciali, 40, was found guilty by an Independent Anti-Corruption Hearing of match-fixing offences at the ATP 500 event in Barcelona on 2011. He was also fined $250,000.

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