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RFE/RL: Ukrainian tennis player banned for life, fined over match fixing

By Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
France's Alize Cornet casts a shadow on court as she prepares to serve to France's Pauline Parmentier during their women's singles second round match on day four of The Roland Garros 2018 French Open tennis tournament in Paris on May 30, 2018.
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Ukrainian tennis player Dmytro Badanov was found guilty of match fixing by an independent hearing officer on May 29 and banned for life as well as fined $100,000.

Badanov, 30, was found to have broken rules of the Tennis Anticorruption Program by fixing the outcome of two matches on the ITF Futures tour in Tunisia in September 2015 and in Egypt in September 2016.

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