PARIS, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- Tunisia have been kept out of the Davis Cup competition for one year for preventing one player from playing a match against Israeli player, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) announced Saturday.
The ITF found the Tunisian Tennis Federation (TTF) to be in breach of their constitution when they ordered one of their players, Malek Jaziri, not to compete against Israeli player Amir Weintraub at the 2013 Tashkent Challenger in October.
The 29-year-old Jaziri, who is his country's highest-ranked player at 215 in the world, had initially pulled out of the match in question citing a knee injury.
The ITF said that they were "not satisfied with the case put forward by the Tunisian Tennis Federation" and their board voted unanimously in favor of banning Tunisia from the 2014 Davis Cup, with the exception of a Tunisian board member who did not take part in the vote.