{"id":7250,"date":"2013-11-02T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T08:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/itf-bans-tunisia-from-davis-cup\/"},"modified":"2013-11-02T08:47:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T08:47:00","slug":"itf-bans-tunisia-from-davis-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/itf-bans-tunisia-from-davis-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"ITF bans Tunisia from Davis Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cagliari, Italy (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The International Tennis Federation has banned Tunisia from the Davis Cup for one year after it was found that the country&#8217;s tennis federation ordered one of its players not to compete against an Israeli opponent.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ITF, the Tunisian Tennis Federation told Malek Jaziri to withdraw from an ATP Challenger tournament in Tashkent last month rather than play Israel&#8217;s Amir Weintraub.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no room for prejudice of any kind in sport or in society,&#8221; said ITF president Francesco Ricci Bitti in a statement Saturday. &#8220;The ITF Board decided to send a strong message to the Tunisian Tennis Federation that this kind of action will not be tolerated by any of our members.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ITF Board voted unanimously to suspend Tunisia from Davis Cup play for 2014. Tunisian board member Tarak Cherif recused himself from the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cagliari, Italy (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The International Tennis Federation has banned Tunisia from the Davis Cup for one year after it was found that the country&#8217;s tennis federation ordered one of its players not to compete against an Israeli opponent. According to the ITF, the Tunisian Tennis Federation told Malek Jaziri to withdraw from an ATP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}