A Colombian tennis star has been suspended by his sport’s integrity body for promoting a local online betting site on social media.

In February, Colombia doubles tennis player Robert Farah found himself in hot water after he used his official Twitter account to post a photo of himself riding a gym exercise bike while holding his mobile, on which locally licensed online betting operator BetPlay’s app was prominently featured.

Farah quickly deleted the photo, to which he’d added the phrase “I already bet, you too,” after tennis officials pointed out the potential fallout of a sports star actively promoting betting on a sport that leads all others in terms of suspected match-fixing incidents.

But the damage was done, and the sport’s Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) opened an investigation. On Friday, the TIU announced that Farah had been found guilty of breaching the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program, for which he has been banned from tennis play for three months and fined US$5k.