(Reuters) - Unranked Spaniard Gerard Platero Rodriguez has become the first tennis player convicted of 'courtsiding', which involves sending live scoring data from a match to a third party for betting purposes.
The Tennis Integrity Unit (ITU) said in a statement https://www.tennisintegrityunit.com/media-releases/gerard-joseph-platero-rodriguez-suspended-and-fined-courtsiding-betting-and-non-co-operation-offences that Rodriguez, 25, had been suspended for four years and fined $15,000 for courtsiding, betting and non-cooperation offences.