Two Italian tennis players banned by ATP for betting

ROME, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- Italian tennis players, Potito Starace and Daniele Bracciali, were banned by the ATP for betting on tennis matches, the Italian Tennis Federation (FIT) said on Saturday.

Starace, the Italian number one and 31st in the ATP rankings, was banned for six weeks from Jan. 1 and fined 30,000 U.S. dollars for making five bets amounting to a total of around 90 euros two years ago, FIT said on its Web site (www.federtennis.it).

Daniele Bracciali, ranked 258th, was banned for three months and fined 20,000 U.S. dollars for making around 50 bets of five euros each, it said.