Dear Mr Kilray
Re: Colombia F4 Futures - Confidential
The ITF has been notified that you and Chris Hunter shared a room during the above event, but both left without settling your bill. The hotel has provided us with details of their daily rate (including internet costs) and signed copies of bills for all meals taken in the hotel. A total of $1985 is owed to the hotel which is be broken down as follows:
Room $620 (COP 1,140,000)Safe $33 (COP 60,000)Bar $34 (COP 63,362)Minibar $147 (COP 269,500)Restaurant $414 (COP 760,827)Room Service $13 (COP 23,800)Business Center $34 (COP 64,000)Telephone $415 (COP 763,165)Cleaning $27 (COP 50,000)Tax $1.1 (COP 2,000) VAT $236 (COP 434,752)Paid out $10.9 (COP 20,000)
ITF Pro Circuit staff have spent an inordinate amount of time on this matter. Players and/or their coaches attending an ITF Pro Circuit tournament are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner. The failure on the part of yourself and Mr Hunter to settle your bill on departure has caused damage to the reputation of the ITF, which is utterly unacceptable.
The ITF has settled the outstanding bill and I require that you and Mr Hunter arrange to reimburse the ITF immediately.
$992 has been added to your Code of Conduct record. You will be aware that the Code states that any player who accumulates $500 or more in unpaid fines for violation of the Code shall not be allowed to enter any ITF Pro Circuit tournament (online or on-site) until such time as all fines have been paid in full.
Failure to pay this amount by 31 June 2008 may result in the ITF launching a Major Investigation in accordance with Article V: Player Major Offences, Item C. Aggravated Behaviour, which states in part:
“No player or Related Person at any ITF Pro Circuit Tournament shall engage in “Aggravated Behaviour” which is defined as follows:
One or more incidents of behaviour designated in this Code as constituting “Aggravated Behaviour”;
One incident of behaviour that is flagrant and particularly injurious to the success of an ITF Pro Circuit Tournament, or is singularly egregious;
Violation of this Section by a player, directly or indirectly through a Related Person or others, shall subject a player to a fine of up to $5,000 or the amount of prize money won at the tournament, whichever is greater, and a maximum penalty of permanent suspension from play in all ITF Pro Circuit Tournaments.
Violation of this Section shall subject a Related Person to a maximum penalty of permanent revocation of accreditation and denial of access to all ITF Pro Circuit Tournaments.”
This email is marked confidential. Publication of this email to a third party without permission, in part or in full, will result in the launch of a Major Investigation regardless of whether the fine is paid in full by the required deadline.
Regards
Jackie Nesbitt
Head of Professional Circuits
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