ITF adds to tennis furore
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.Kazakhstan's Kirill Parfenov was banned for life in February last year for contacting another official on Facebook to manipulate the scoring of matches. Croatian Denis Pitner was suspended in August for a year for sending information about a player to a coach during a tournament and logging onto a site from which bets were placed on matches.The ITF said suspensions had not previously been disclosed because the then code of conduct did not require it...
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