By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Thursday, August 17, 2023

The professional tennis circuit is a journey and the journey is over for Alexis Musialek.

The former world No. 255 Musialek has been banned from tennis for all times after being discovered responsible of fixing 9 matches between 2016 and 2018 and for failing to cooperate with an investigation by withholding proof, the International Tennis Integrity Agency introduced right now.

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In addition to his lifetime ban, which started on August fifth, Musialek was hit with a $50,000 effective.

The 35-year-old Frenchman was accused of 39 violations of the tennis anti-corruption program. 

Musialek denied the costs in opposition to him.

Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer Raj Parker discovered Musialek "contrived the outcome of multiple matches, received money, benefit or consideration for contriving the outcome of these matches, and facilitated other players not to use their best efforts."

This case is the most recent in a sequence of investigations pursued by the ITIA together with regulation enforcement in Belgium, which has seen quite a lot of tennis gamers implicated in match-fixing incidents, and the chief of the scheme jailed for 5 years.

In this case, "evidence from the Belgian proceedings supported intelligence gathered through parallel ITIA investigations and industry betting alerts," the ITIA mentioned.

As a results of this ruling, Musialek might be prohibited from enjoying in, teaching at, or attending any tennis occasion approved or sanctioned by the governing our bodies of tennis completely. Musialek has additionally been fined $50,000. The sanction is efficient from August 5, 2023.

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