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U.S. Davis Cup captain Mardy Fish and coach Bob Bryan can pay a value for his or her gaming promotion.
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Fish and Bob Bryan have each been fined $10,000 and issued with suspended bans of 4 months after admitting the promotion of a gaming operator on social media.
Each Fish and Bob Bryan “co-operated totally with the ITIA investigation and eliminated the posts instantly,” the International Tennis Integrity Agency announced today.
The suspensions is not going to be enforced except there’s a additional breach throughout the four-month interval, which started on November 11, 2022.
Each had been accredited as a part of the US Davis Cup teaching crew in 2022, which means they’re thought-about “coated individuals” and topic to the game’s guidelines round relationships with betting operators.
Final week, Fabio Fognini and Simone Bolelli scored a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Jack Sock and Tommy Paul to clinch Italy’s 2-1 win over the USA and ship the Italians into their first Davis Cup semifinal since 2014.
Captain Fish got here beneath some criticism for his resolution to depart two-time defending US Open doubles champion and reigning ATP Finals doubles champion Rajeev Ram off the roster.
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