{"id":1579706,"date":"2024-04-26T16:56:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T20:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1579706"},"modified":"2024-04-26T16:59:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T20:59:16","slug":"tennis-umpire-pavel-atanasov-banned-for-betting-violations-withdraws-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/tennis-umpire-pavel-atanasov-banned-for-betting-violations-withdraws-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Umpire Pavel Atanasov Banned For Betting Violations, Withdraws Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bulgarian umpire Pavel Atanasov has received a permanent ban from tennis <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">after withdrawing his appeal for betting violations and charges of corruption, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) announced April 19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2><b>Tennis umpire Pavel Atanasov fined $10,000, admitted to 21 breaches of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program<\/b><\/h2>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Atanasov, a national-level official, was also given a $10,000 fine for 21 breaches of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program (TACP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;In withdrawing from proceedings, Atanasov effectively admitted liability for numerous TACP offenses between 2019 and 2023,&#8221; the ITIA said, &#8220;including the manipulation of scoring data of matches for betting purposes, facilitating wagering, conspiring to commit corruption offenses, wagering on tennis matches, and failure to report corrupt approaches.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the investigation, Atanasov said he was paid less than $100 each day for umpiring at International Tennis Federation events.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Atanasov, who has officiated at ITF $15K and $25K tournaments in Bulgaria, is permanently prohibited from officiating at or attending any <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?s=Tennis\">tennis event<\/a>\u00a0authorized or sanctioned by the members of the ITIA (ATP, ITF, WTA, Tennis Australia, F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Fran\u00e7aise de Tennis, Wimbledon, and USTA) or any national association.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>ITIA suspended Brazilian umpire Antonio Casa, Slovenian umpire Marko Ducman<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last Monday, Brazilian umpire Antonio Casa was suspended for seven years, six months after admitting to seven breaches of the TACP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The national-level official was also fined $8,000 and given a suspended penalty of $17,001 for breaching the TACP, the ITIA added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Casa will be barred from officiating or attending any event authorized or sanctioned by ITIA members until midnight on Sept. 27, 2031.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In November 2023, the ITIA also suspended Slovenian umpire Marko Ducman for 10 years and six months for betting on matches and manipulating data. The official was also fined $75,000, with $56,250 suspended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ducman, an international-level official, officiated at ITF, ATP, and WTA tournaments. The umpire had been provisionally banned after admitting breaches of the TACP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bronze-level official admitted four breaches, including wagering on matches and manipulating data from matches in which he was officiating to facilitate betting. His suspension will end on March 7, 2034.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bulgarian umpire Pavel Atanasov has received a permanent ban from tennis after withdrawing his appeal for betting violations and charges of corruption, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) announced April 19.   Tennis umpire Pavel Atanasov fined $10,000, admitted to 21 breaches of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program   Atanasov, a national-level official, was also given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":305,"featured_media":1579707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,447316,12944],"tags":[447423,447424,447426,8973],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tennis Umpire Pavel Atanasov Banned For Betting Violations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bulgarian umpire Pavel Atanasov has received a permanent ban from tennis after withdrawing his appeal for betting violations and charges...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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