The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) showed that Slovenian tennis respectable Marko Ducman has been suspended from the game for 10 years and 6 months after admitting to breaches of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Programme (TACP).
Ducman, an international-degree respectable, admitted to 4 breaches of the TACP, inclusive of wagering on tennis fits and manipulating statistics from fits wherein they have been an respectable to facilitate betting.
Ducman, a bronze-badge respectable who has officiated at ITF, ATP and WTA tournaments, co-operated completely with the ITIA research and established an agreed sanction, waiving their proper to a listening to earlier than an unbiased Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer. Ducman has additionally been fined $75,000, with $56,250 suspended.
The respectable has been provisionally suspended when you consider that eight September 2023, and time served beneathneath provisional suspension may be credited in opposition to Ducman’s duration of ineligibility. As such, their suspension will give up on 7 March 2034.
During the suspension, Ducman is illegal from officiating at or attending any tennis occasion authorized or sanctioned through the participants of the ITIA: ATP, ITF, WTA, Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon and US Open, or any country wide association.