World No. 2 Iga Swiatek stated Friday she is able to transfer on from a doping controversy, insisting there isn’t any cause for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to attraction her case.
The 23-year-old Pole examined constructive for the guts treatment trimetazidine (TMZ) in an out-of-competition pattern in August whereas ranked No. 1.
However, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) decided the violation was unintentional, leading to a one-month suspension that precipitated her to overlook three Asian tournaments and lose her prime rating.
The news broke in late November, and Swiatek is ready to return to competitors on the United Cup in Sydney forward of the Australian Open subsequent month.
Swiatek acknowledged the incident was “mentally tough” however famous the general public response has been largely supportive, easing issues that she would face widespread backlash.
“I think people, most of them, are understanding,” stated the five-time Grand Slam champion.
“And the ones who read the documents and are aware of how the system works, they know that I had no fault and had no influence on what was going on.”
“I try to just go on with my life and focus on different things, focus on preparing for the season and on tennis, because this is the best thing you can do after a case like that,” she stated.
Her case is much like that of Italian males’s world No. 1 Jannik Sinner, who was exonerated by the ITIA for twice testing constructive for traces of the steroid clostebol in March. But WADA appealed the choice in September, and Sinner is awaiting the result.
Swiatek stated she doesn’t anticipate WADA will comply with the identical path together with her.
“I gave every possible piece of evidence, and there is not much, honestly, more to do,” she stated.
“There is no point in appealing, in our opinion.”
“But, you know, I guess overall, this whole process was pretty abstract at times and hard to understand from a perspective where you don’t think about the law and everything.”
“But honestly, this is about the law and the wording and this kind of stuff. So I’m not expecting an appeal, but I have kind of no influence on what’s going to happen.”
“But I can say from the processes I went through and how they treated me from the beginning, that it seemed fair to me,” she stated.
“I managed to give the source (of the contamination) pretty quickly. That’s why the case closed pretty quickly.”
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