Iga Swiatek honestly confessed that her strong financial status helped her act quickly and hire the best of the best to help her deal with the doping issue but also noted that she didn’t regret a bit spending nearly $100k because the most important thing was to clear her name.
During the WTA 1000 tournament in Cincinnati in early August, the five-time Grand Slam champion was picked by the anti-doping officials for testing. On September 12th – just a week after concluding her US Open campaign – the world No. 2 was informed by the ITIA that one of her samples returned as positive for doping.
The moment Swiatek realized what the email was about, she started to panic and cry heavily, just as if “someone died.”
“My reaction was very violent. It was a mixture of incomprehension and panic. There was a lot of crying. We get a notification by email and by text message when there is a problem or when we need to complete something in the documents. I opened the email and thought it was a notification that players automatically get when they have to do something,” Anita Werner on Fakty po Faktach on TVN24.
“But this time it turned out that the email was much more serious. Generally, I wasn’t able to read it to the end, because I was already drenched in tears. My managers…
