Iga Swiatek doesn’t agree there are grounds to compare her doping case to the ones of Simona Halep and Jannik Sinner as the world No. 2 believes all of them were in “completely different situations.”
In late November, it was announced that one of the Pole’s samples from August came back as positive for trimetazidine (TMZ): After being given a provisional suspension, the 23-year-old successfully explained that the banned substance entered her body because the melatonin medication she was using at the time was contaminated.
The ITIA accepted the explanation and gave Swiatek a symbolic one-month ban after determing that she “bore no significant fault or negligence” for what happened.
When it comes to Sinner, you probably already know very all the details there – he tested positive twice for clostebol in March but quickly determined how it happened – his explanation was fully accepted – and it all resulted in him not getting a single day of suspension.
Before Swiatek and Sinner, Halep tested positive for Roxadustat in 2022 October. After fighting for a year and a half to clear her name, the former world No. 1 was finally successful when her case went to the CAS – who reduced her initial four-year suspension to nine months.
The two recent high-profile doping cases also…
