Chilean tennis coach and former participant Sebastián Rivera has been banned from the game for all times after being discovered responsible of a file 64 offences of match fixing.
The Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company (ITIA) confirmed it was “the very best quantity ever detected by a participant”.
The ITIA added that Rivera, 36, “failed to have interaction meaningfully with the disciplinary course of”.
He was additionally fined $250,000 (£222,104).
The ruling implies that Rivera might be “completely prohibited from teaching at, taking part in in or attending any tennis occasion authorised or sanctioned by the governing our bodies of tennis”.
Guidelines breached by Rivera embody soliciting others to wager on the end result of matches, trying to contrive the end result of a match, accepting cash with the intention to negatively affect a participant’s greatest efforts and providing cash with the intention of negatively influencing a participant’s greatest efforts.
He reached a career-high 705 within the ATP rankings as a participant in September 2009, profitable 115 of his 218 matches, however he has not performed on the skilled circuit since 2017.
