Italy player Marco Cecchinato is banned

Marco Cecchinato

Italian Marco Cecchinato has been banned for 18 months and fined 40,000 euros ($44,000) for his role in match-fixing and sports corruption by the Italian tennis federation.

Cecchinato, who was a fourth-man reserve for the Italian Davis Cup team last week, is one of three Italian players, along with Riccardo Accardi and Antonio Campo, to face sanctions.

He is notably accused of altering the outcome of a match with Poland’s Kamil Majchrzak at a Moroccan challenger event in October 2015.

Accardi (12 months and 20,000 euros) and Campo (four months, 10,000 euros) were also sanctioned.