Professional tennis player gets 6-year ban for allegedly fixing matches

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The International Tennis Integrity Agency announced Friday it had suspended Jasmina Tinjić for six years for allegedly fixing matches.

The ITIA said Tinjić admitted to 23 "breaches of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program," including "contriving the outcome of matches, facilitating wagering, receiving money in return for not giving best efforts in matches, and failure to report corrupt approaches."

The 33-year-old Tinjić, ranked as high as 236th in 2013, did not contest the charges relating to "corrupt activity" in 2017 and 2018, the ITIA said.

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Jasmina Tinjić was issued a six-year ban for alleged match-fixing. (Erica Denhoff/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

The International Betting Integrity Association was flagged in January 2018 while she was playing in a tournament, which led to an investigation. 

"Swedish authorities carried out an investigation into various tennis matches Ms. Tinjić played in and for which there was also suspicious betting activity," the ITIA said in its ruling.

That investigation led to criminal charges against her after she was found guilty of accepting a bribe of 12,000 SEK (equivalent to about $1,160).

It found that several matches in three different countries were fixed. It was also revealed there had been a bank transfer. The ITIA blanked out the name of who made the transfer and other specifics from instances of the alleged match fixing.

Tinjić also failed to cooperate and allegedly tampered with evidence.

Tinjić will be eligible to return to the sport in 2028. (Aaron Doster/USA Today Sports)

"At the time, she was extremely stressed, and suffered from