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LONDON, Dec 28: Italian tennis players Potito Starace and Daniele Bracciali have been banned and fined for betting on matches, the ATP confirmed on Thursday.
Starace, the world number 31, was suspended for six weeks and fined 30,000 dollars while Bracciali, ranked 258, was banned for three months and fined 20,000 dollars.
The ATP, the governing body of the men’s game, said that an investigation, launched in August 2007, found 26-year-old Starace had bet on matches during a period from February 2006 to May 2006.
Bracciali, 29, was guilty of betting on matches from May 2004 to January 2005.—AFP
