US coaches fined

US Davis Cup team coaches Mardy Fish and Bob Bryan were fined $10,000 apiece for promoting a gambling operator via social media. The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) announced the punishments yesterday, saying that Fish and Bryan co-operated fully with its investigation and removed the problematic posts immediately. They were given four-month bans that were provisionally set aside and will be enforced only if there is another breach by Fish or Bryan during a four-month probationary period that began on November 11. Fish, the US Davis Cup captain since 2019, and Bryan, who has been a coach and served as an acting captain this year when Fish was sidelined with Covid-19, were ‘‘subject to the sport’s rules around relationships with betting operators’’, the ITIA said. The United States reached the Davis Cup quarterfinals this season, losing to Italy at that stage in Malaga, Spain, last week. The Americans have won a record 32 titles.