One umpire was barred for life and another suspended for a year, the International Tennis Federation confirmed Tuesday in response to an article by The Guardian.
Kirill Parfenov of Kazakhstan was barred for life in February 2015 for using Facebook to contact another official in an “attempt to manipulate the scoring of matches,” the I.T.F. said in a statement. Denis Pitner of Croatia was suspended for a year in August after passing on details on the “physical well-being of a player to a coach during a tournament and regularly logging on to a betting account from which bets were placed on tennis matches,” the I.