ITIA hands lifetime ban to Thai tennis player for match-fixing

The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) has handed a player from Thailand a lifetime ban for breaching anti-corruption protocols. The organisation has been actively pursuing cases of corruption in tennis at the lower level in the recent past and has handed hefty fines a long with lengthy bans to athletes who are found guilty of breaching those protocols.

Thailand’s Jatuporn Na Lamphun has become the latest edition in that list as he has been handed a hefty fine of more than $100,000 under the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program (TACP), along with a lifetime ban. The 31-year-old was handed such a severe punishment for not being able to cooperate with the investigation regarding two charges of match fixing across 2023 and 2024.

It is not the first time for Na Lamphun. He served an 18-month suspension in 2016 as well after being found guilty of breaching the anti-corruption protocols on three accounts. The ITIA confirmed the latest development in a statement issued on its official website. The recent development means that Na Lamphun will not be able to take part in any activities associated with tennis under the banner of the ITIA, ATP, WTA, Grand Slams, Tennis Australia, Fédération Française de Tennis, Wimbledon and USTA. The statement also confirmed that the player elected not to ‘appeal’ against the sanctions.

“The ITIA can today confirm that Thai tennis player Jatuporn Na Lamphun has been issued a lifetime ban and fined $115,000 for offenses under the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program (TACP),” read the statement. “Na Lamphun, who also served an 18-month suspension for TACP offenses in 2016, did not respond to the ITIA’s notice of charge, which included facilitating, or attempting to facilitate, the fixing of 22 matches across 2023 and 2024, providing or offering money in 18 of those matches, and failure to co-operate with an ITIA investigation.”

The statement continued by saying: “Na Lamphun, unranked, has been provisionally suspended since December 2024. Following Na Lamphun’s failure to reply to the sanction proposed in the notice of charge, a lifetime ban came into force as a deemed sanction on 20 August 2025. The player elected not to appeal the sanction to an independent Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer (AHO). As a result, Na Lamphun is permanently prohibited from playing in, coaching at, or attending any tennis event authorised or sanctioned by the members of the ITIA (ATP, ITF, WTA, Tennis Australia, Fédération Française de Tennis, Wimbledon and USTA) or any national association.