ITIA suspends unranked Thai tennis player over integrity breaches
Thirty-one-year-old Jatuporn Na Lamphun provisionally suspended after three violations of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Programme
The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) has suspended Thai tennis player Jatuporn Na Lamphun over breaches to the integrity body’s Tennis Anti-Corruption Programme (TACP).
He has been provisionally suspended “pending the full consideration of charges under the TACP”.
The unranked Na Lamphun, aged 31, has been sanctioned over three separate TACP breaches.
His breaches include the likelihood of a major offence (section F.3.b.i.4 of the TACP), failure to comply with a demand (section F.3.b.i.1) and the delay and/or obstruction of an investigation (section F.3.b.i.2).
Na Lamphun’s provisional suspension is backdated to 24 December 2024, and he has elected not to appeal the decision.
During his suspension, Na Lamphun is prohibited from playing in, coaching at or attending any tennis event authorised or sanctioned by the members of the ITIA.
These include the ATP, ITF, WTA, Tennis Australia, Fédération Française de Tennis, Wimbledon and USTA, or any other national association.
Earlier this month, the ITIA sanctioned six players for TACP breaches related to historical match-fixing between 2017 and 2018.
The matches in question were traced back to a Belgium-based match-fixing syndicate, whose leader Grigor Sargsyan was sentenced to a five-year custodial sentence following a joint investigation by the ITIA and Belgian authorities.
A separate case saw tennis player Dragos Madaras have his ITIA suspension reduced from four years to two years following a successful appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).