LONDON (AP) — Serbian tennis player Stefan Milićević has been given a 24-year ban for allegedly fixing multiple matches and recruiting other players into a “corrupt network,” the International Tennis Integrity Agency said Thursday.

The agency said the 29-year-old Milićević was charged with fixing six matches — including five of his own — and trying to fix six more between 2022 and 2024. He is banned from tennis until 2050.

Milićević never reached a singles ranking higher than 1,338 and only played in lower-tier events. But the ITIA also charged him with recruiting “multiple professional players as part of a corrupt network” that resulted in “a number of other players fixing matches” during those same years.

The agency did not give details about which matches were fixed, or name any of the other players involved.

SHANGHAI (AP) — Alexander Zverev beat Alexander Bublik 7-6 (6), 4-6, 7-6 (1) to reach the Shanghai Masters quarterfinals on Tuesday in his first match since securing the year-end No. 1 ranking.

Zverev saved three set points in the first-set tiebreaker and beat Bublik for only the second time in five career meetings.

“My ankle was acting up, unfortunately,” Zverev said. “It was kind of understandable because I have been playing a lot of tennis, which is kind of a good sign because I have been playing well. I am starting to feel my body more and more but I am happy to get through.”

Bublik led 20-15 in aces but also had eight double faults to Zverev’s one.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — The University of Maryland says it suspended its club tennis team after learning of racist imagery in material sent to other tennis clubs.

“On Saturday, UMD Recreation and Wellness (RecWell) staff learned that members of the Maryland Club Tennis student organization distributed programming material with a graphic containing racist imagery targeting people who are Black or African American,” the school said Monday. “They emailed this information to other university tennis clubs in the region about this weekend’s fall tournament at College Park.”

The school said the team has been suspended and the matter has been referred to university police.

“The University of Maryland is horrified and expresses its regret and sincere apology for the harm that this has caused,” the school said. “In addition to UMD club tennis apologizing and forfeiting its matches, UMD’s director of Recreation and Wellness issued an apology to the club presidents of all the participating teams. This matter has been referred to the University of Maryland Police Department and the Office of Student Conduct.”