Iga Swiatek is officially no longer a suspended player after her doping ban expired on Wednesday and the International Tennis Integrity Agency removed her from their sanctions list.
Last Thursday, the ITIA announced that the five-time Grand Slam champion provided a sample in August which came back as positive for a banned substance trimetazidine (TMZ). As a result, she was handed a provisional suspension on September 12th but was able to quickly determine how it happened – prove that she was a victim of a contaminated medication – and her appeal was successful.
Still, the ITIA decided to give her a symbolical one-month ban, starting on November 27. However, since she already served 22 days during her provisional ban, only eight more days were left to serve. With that being said, December 4th was officially the last day of her suspension.
And now when you type in Swiatek’s name in the ITIA’s sanctions category, you can’t find her anymore on the list.
The ITIA didn’t think that Swiatek warranted major suspension
After being notified about failing a doping test, the world No. 2 was left absolutely shocked but she also needed to act quickly. And that included doing everything possible to determine how TMZ ended up in her system. Eventually,…
