Albina Khabibulina Hit with Lifetime Ban for Match Fixing

Multiple match-fixing offenses have cost Albina Khabibulina her career.The Uzbekistan player was hit with a lifetime ban and fined $150,000 for match fixing, approaching other players to fix matches and failing to cooperate with an investigation into corruption. The International Tennis Integrity Agency announced Khabibulina had committed multiple breaches of Tennis Anti-Corruption Program.More: WTA Suspends China TournamentsKhabibulina, who reached a career-high singles rank of No. 492 in July of 2011, did not contest the charges.The case was ruled on by independent Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer Professor Richard McLaren, O.C. and the sanction means that Ms Khabibulina is permanently prohibited from playing in or attending any tennis event authorised or sanctioned by any international tennis governing body or national association.