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Chinese pair given lengthy bans for series of offences

Investigation rules that Far Eastern markets were manipulated

Yu Delu
Yu DeluCredit: Guang Niu

Yu Delu has been banned from snooker for ten years and nine months, while fellow Chinese player Cao Yupeng was banned for six years with three and a half years of his sentence suspended after a match-fixing investigation by the WPBSA Integrity Unit.

Delu was found to have been involved in match-fixing on five occasions in five tournaments over two and a half years. Yupeng admitted fixing the outcome of three matches in 2016 and failing to fully cooperate with the WPBSA inquiry.

The five matches Delu admitted influencing were a 4-3 win over Martin McCrudden in the 2015 Indian Open qualifiers, a 4-1 defeat to Dominic Dale in the 2015 Paul Hunter Classic, a 4-3 win against Ian Glover in the 2016 Welsh Open, a 4-1 loss to Michael Georgiou in the 2017 European Masters qualifiers and a 5-3 defeat to Kurt Maflin in the 2017 Shanghai Masters. Delu also breached rules by betting on snooker, failing to report approaches to fix matches and not cooperating with the investigation.

The 2016 matches Yupeng admitted to manipulating the outcome in were a 4-1 loss to Ali Carter in the Welsh Open, a 4-0 beating by Stuart Bingham in the Indian Open qualifiers and 6-1 defeat to Stephen Maguire in the UK Championship.

There is no suggestion any of the opponents were aware of the match-fixing, which involved betting on markets in the Far East.


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