• Denis Pitner banned for a year in August 2015 over accessing betting account
• USTA ‘shocked’ to find it failed to withdraw credential for Croat to officiateAn umpire secretly banned for a year for betting offences by the tennis authorities was immediately allowed to work at some of the world’s biggest tournaments,the Guardian can reveal.
The Croat Denis Pitner, who was suspended in August after regularly logging on to a betting account from which bets were placed on matches, or was a line judge at both the US Open,one of tennis’s four grand slam events, later the same month and also at an ATP world tour event in Doha final month, or featuring Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal. A photograph of Pitner sunning himself in Qatar remains on his Facebook page.
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Source: theguardian.com