File photograph of Iga Swiatek© AFP
French Open champion Iga Swiatek escaped with a one-month suspension for a optimistic doping take a look at after convincing the Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company that it had not been intentional, the ITIA introduced on Thursday. Poland’s Swiatek, 23, examined optimistic for the prohibited substance trimetazidine (TMZ) in an out-of-competition pattern in August 2024. The ITIA, nevertheless, accepted that it was attributable to “the contamination of a regulated non-prescription medicine (melatonin), manufactured and bought in Poland that the participant had been taking for jet lag and sleep points”.
“The violation was due to this fact not intentional… the participant’s degree of fault was thought of to be on the lowest finish of the vary for ‘No Important Fault or Negligence’.”
Swiatek, who has 5 Grand Slam titles to her identify, accepted the month’s suspension. She was provisionally suspended from September 22 till October 4, lacking three tournaments, which counts in the direction of the sanction, leaving eight days remaining.
She will even forfeit prize cash from the Cincinnati Open, the event straight following the take a look at, the place she misplaced to world primary Aryna Sabalenka within the last.
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