ITF secretly banned umps
Two international tennis umpires have been secretly banned, while four others face being thrown out of the sport for life on charges of serious corruption, said a report in The Guardian.
Umpires from Kazakhstan, Turkey and Ukraine are alleged to have taken bribes from betting syndicates in exchange for manipulating live scores on the International Tennis Federation's (ITF's) Futures Tour -- which allowed crooked gamblers to place bets already knowing the outcome of the next point.
Yet the tennis authorities never publicly released details, alerting only a small number of tournament directors and national tennis federations.
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