ITF adds to tennis furore
10 February 2016 - 02:10
The International Tennis Federation revealed on Tuesday that two tennis umpires were banned, one for life - last year for breaches of the sport's code of conduct for officials.Four other umpires are under investigation by the Tennis Integrity Unit, the ITF said.In January tennis was rocked by BBC and Buzzfeed reports that 16 top-50-ranked players had been repeatedly flagged to the TIU on suspicion of throwing matches in the past decade.
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