Tennis star given lifetime ban due to ‘role in fixing 22 matches’ | Tennis | Sport

The International Tennis Integrity Agency has confirmed that Jatuporn Na Lamphun has been issued a lifetime ban and fined £84k ($115k) for offences under the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program (TACP).

The unranked Thai tennis player did not respond to a notice of charge from the ITIA. The charges included facilitating or attempting to facilitate the fixing of 22 matches across 2023 and 2024.

He also received a notice of charge for providing or offering money in 18 of those matches, and failure to co-operate with an ITIA investigation.

Na Lamphun has been provisionally suspended since December 2024. The 31-year-old failed to reply to the sanction proposed in the notice of charge.

As a result, a lifetime ban came into force as a deemed sanction on August 20. Na Lamphun did not appeal this punishment to an independent Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer.

He is now permanently banned from playing in, coaching at or attending any tennis event authorised or sanctioned by the ATP, WTA, ITF, Tennis Australia, the French Tennis Federation, Wimbledon, the USTA, or any national association.

Na Lamphun previously served an 18-month suspension for anti-corruption offences in 2016. Independent Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer Ian Mill QC also imposed a fine of £3.7k ($5k).

Aged 22 at the time and unranked, he admitted to three breaches of the programme, which prohibits betting on tennis matches, between July and November 2014.

Mr Nalamphun contested, but was found guilty of a further charge of failing to co-operate with a Tennis Integrity Unit Investigation. For this charge, he received an 18 month suspension.

While reaching a decision on the sanction, Mr Mill QC said: “The full and timely co-operation by participants in TIU investigations is of paramount importance in the efforts being made by the TIU to eliminate corruption in professional tennis.”

The two periods of ineligibility ran concurrently.

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