The discovery of doping among top tennis players is a real disgrace. This was stated by the former world number one racket Yevgeny Kafelnikov on the social network X against the background of the case of Polish player Iga Szwiatek.
“Sometimes I think: ‘Why didn’t I take steroids my whole career so I could play 300 games a year instead of 170?’ “What is happening to tennis right now is truly a shame,” the athlete wrote.
The day before the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) reportedThe doping test of the world’s second racket, Iga Swiatek, was positive. Trimetazidine was detected in the athlete’s blood. ITIA ruled that the presence of a banned drug in the doping sample was due to contaminated melatonin.
Vice President of the Russian Tennis Federation Alexey Selivanenko briefly reacted due to failed doping test in the world’s second racket. He stated that it was too early to draw any conclusions.
Previously to the US Anti-Doping Agency filed to the court.