Nov 28, 2024 08:01 PM IST
Iga Swiatek failed an out-of-competition drug take a look at in August, and the ITIA accepted her clarification that the end result was unintentional
5-time Grand Slam champion Iga Swiatek accepted a one-month suspension after testing optimistic for the banned substance trimetazidine, a coronary heart treatment referred to as TMZ, the Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company introduced Thursday.
Poland’s Iga Swiatek reacts throughout her match towards Italy’s Jasmine Paolini(REUTERS)
Swiatek failed an out-of-competition drug take a look at in August, and the ITIA accepted her clarification that the end result was unintentional and was attributable to the contamination of a nonprescription treatment, melatonin, that Swiatek was taking for points with jet lag and sleeping.
It was decided her degree of fault was “at the lowest end of the range for no significant fault or negligence,” the IATA mentioned.
That is the second latest high-profile doping case in tennis: The highest-ranked man, Jannik Sinner, failed two exams for a steroid in March and was cleared in August, proper earlier than the beginning of the U.S. Open, which he went on to win for his second Grand Slam title of the season.
Swiatek is a 23-year-old from Poland who was ranked No. 1 many of the previous two seasons however is now at No. 2. She received the French Open in June for her fifth main championship and took dwelling a bronze medal on the Paris Olympics in early August.
TMZ is the drug on the heart of the case involving 23 Chinese language swimmers who remained eligible regardless of testing optimistic for efficiency enhancers in 2021.
Swiatek formally admitted the anti-doping rule violation on Wednesday and accepted her penalty.
She already was provisionally suspended from Sept. 22 to Oct. 4, lacking three tournaments throughout the post-U.S. Open hard-court swing in Asia — the Korea Open, the China Open and the Wuhan Open.
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