Billie Jean King Cup France captain Julien Benneteau shared his tackle the 2 controversial doping issues involving Iga Swiatek and Jannik Sinner, attempting to pinpoint the supply of the issue. Benneteau stated that extra readability is required to keep away from tarnishing the picture of tennis.
Within the newest episode of Les Grandes Gueules du Sport on RMC in, the previous French tennis participant stated tennis doesn’t have a doping drawback however the issue is communication and the distinction in therapy across the instances.
“I don’t think tennis has a doping problem. I think the problem is the ITIA, the communication and the difference in treatment in these cases. Does that leave room for doubt? Of course. It’s poorly managed. And it raises questions. When we ask ourselves: tennis has a doping problem, can we say that some of the top 100 players in the world are doping? That the ATP and WTA cover all positive players? That there is a real organized system? That’s impossible!
We are monitored continuously. A player who plays in a tournament is checked. There are 15 to 20 checks per year. For an itinerant individual sport, that’s quite significant. There is no organized doping. But the ITIA must establish harmonization in terms of communication and sanctions. What is suspensive or not? There we have the impression that it depends on the player’s ranking,” defined the Frenchman.
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Sinner is below fireplace for testing constructive for Clostebol, for which WADA is asking for a disqualification for negligence and for which the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport is awaiting its opinion. Iga Swiatek has already been suspended for a month.
Within the meantime, from 19 to 22 December the Etihad Area in Abu Dhabi would be the stage for the brand new version of the World Tennis League, the occasion promoted through the break from the common season that pits 16 female and male tennis gamers from the circuit divided into 4 groups. This 12 months, nonetheless, the competitors opened with some off-court points, which in a sure sense pressured the organizers to intervene to keep away from any sort of dialogue or controversy through the occasion.
As talked about, Swiatek, one of many protagonists, examined constructive for trimetazidine and the difficulty was revealed publicly solely lately. There was no scarcity of harsh assaults in opposition to the Polish participant, and amongst these is the Australian Nick Kyrgios. As probability would have it, the 2 had been included in the identical group for the Yas Island occasion: in latest days the WTL has chosen to vary the composition of the groups already fashioned as a precaution.
The 4 groups have now turn into these:
Crew Eagles: Iga Swiatek, Hubert Hurkacz, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Paula BadosaTeam Falcons: Daniil Medvedev, Andrey Rublev, Elena Rybakina and Caroline GarciaTeam Hawks: Aryna Sabalenka, Taylor Fritz, Mirra Andreeva and Sumit NagalTeam Kites: Jasmine Paolini, Casper Ruud, Nick Kyrgios and Barbora Krejcikova
