Dutch tennis coach Max Wenders has been banned from the sport for 12 years after admitting multiple match-fixing charges

Dutch tennis handler Max Wenders has been prohibited from the sportswoman for 12 years after admitting multiple match-fixing charges.

The coach has been prohibited by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA). He also admitted to destroying evidence requested by the ITIA (then the Tennis Integrity Unit) and weakness to written report a deprave approach.

The slip was originally heard by Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer (AHO) Professor Richard McLaren inwards Apr 2021, who ruled that Wenders should also make up a $12,000 fine. Publication of the countenance was delayed after submissions from the coach’s effectual team, but McLaren has now lifted the prohibition.

Wenders is at present banned from playing in, coaching at or attending any tennis case authorised or sanctioned by the sport’s governing bodies for a full point of 12 years. That geological period began on 28 April 2021, the date of the decision.

Wenders admitted to trinity breaches of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Programme (TACP) rules, single of which states that “No Covered Person shall, straight or indirectly, contrive, attempt to contrive, hold to contrive, or collude to contrive the outcome, or any other aspect, of any Event.”

Another of the breached rules states that “No Covered Person shall, straight or indirectly, alleviate any Player to not usage his or her topper efforts inward any Event.”

Wenders has reportedly worked with several players on the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Tour as a coach, assistant or hitting partner, and is the former tutor and beau of American Serdica Kenin, who reached a career-high humankind ranking of 4th in March 2020.