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Daniel Koellerer, widely regarded as the biggest @£%& in professional tennis, has received his just desserts today with a life ban from professional tennis and a fine of $100k. The Tennis Integrity Unit works under a shroud of secrecy so there are no official details of which matches were bent (although you could probably from a substantial list from Koellerer's schedule). From the press release : Mr Koellerer was found guilty of three charges under Article D of the 2010 Uniform Tennis Anti-Corruption Program, namely: • Contriving or attempting to contrive the outcome of an Event; • Soliciting or facilitating a Player not to use his or her best efforts in an Event; and; • Soliciting, offering or providing money, benefit or Consideration to any other covered person with the intention of negatively influencing a Player’s best efforts in any Event So the Tennis Integrity Unit has found a spine, that's great news for the game. Although, let's be honest, Dan...

Host a really weak tournament on the tennis circuit's least-favoured surface the week before a Grand Slam, have players enter who have never won match on grass and what do you get? Oscar Hernandez is a decent claycourter rarely able to win on any other surface, Daniel Koellerer is a headcase who swears at his opponents, the umpire, line judges, spectators. Something is up here. This market movement has all happened in the past couple of hours. These two have a history - take a look at this clip and see how 'friendly' they are to each other! The ATP supervisor watched this match very closely. Koellerer made it look like he was trying early, had break points against the Spaniard's serve in the first set, got out to about 1.61 and then went according to the script, I mean went to water under the pressure....