Iga Swiatek revealed that she \u2018cried for two weeks\u2019 after receiving an email in November 2024 which informed her that she had failed a doping test a few months prior, calling the situation \u2018terrible\u2019 and \u2018confusing.\u2019<\/p>\n
In late November 2024, it was announced that the six-time Grand Slam champion had accepted a one-month suspension by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) after testing positive for the banned substance, trimetazidine.<\/p>\n
Swiatek<\/a> was quick to explain that a batch of her non-prescription melatonin, which she used for jet lag and sleep issues, had been contaminated.<\/p>\n The ITIA concluded that the violation was \u2018not intentional\u2019 after \u2018interviews with the player and their entourage, investigations, and analysis from two WADA-accredited laboratories.\u2019<\/p>\n As a result, with the real reason unbeknownst to the public, Swiatek was forced to miss three tournaments, including WTA 1000 tournaments in both Beijing and Wuhan.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was pretty terrible,\u201d admitted the Pole, recounting the experience on the Served with Andy Roddick podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI was in a photoshoot with a sponsor in Warsaw, and I was in the middle of it. We were just changing locations.<\/p>\n \u201cI went on my email and I saw that an email from this portal, and I thought it was just a reminder of my whereabouts or something.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t even read it because I started crying, and my agents who were at the shoot thought that someone had died.<\/p>\n \u201cI gave my manager the phone and she read everything. They were, obviously, very confused because no one knows what to do in a situation like that.<\/p>\n \u201cI called Maciej [Ryszczuk], my physical training coach, and we met during the shoot.<\/p>\n \u201cI had no idea if I should even continue the shoot, my face was all red, I was crying for about 40 minutes, but then \u2013 on the other hand \u2013 I knew that I couldn\u2019t really tell them about it. So I just continued for the next few hours.\u201d<\/p>\n The reaction was likely further exacerbated after observing criticism made of ATP world No 1 Jannik Sinner, who had failed two separate doping tests in March 2024.<\/p>\n Tara Moore, another player who failed a test after claiming contamination, tweeted about Swiatek\u2019s one-month suspension at the time: \u201cI took 19 months off as I had to make a \u2018change to my team\u2019 too guys. Let\u2019s not forget, mine was also contamination, and 2 other people also tested positive yet ITIA are appealing my case. Why is no one seriously looking into the corruption of the organisations that govern us?\u201d<\/p>\n The Brit claimed that Colombian meat, which she had consumed, had been similarly contaminated, but was given a four-year suspension after being found to have insufficiently proved her explanation.<\/p>\n Emma Raducanu has major rankings chance at Canadian Open after \u2018extremely difficult\u2019 win<\/a><\/p>\n \u2018I wish I was more like Carlos Alcaraz\u2019 \u2013 Iga Swiatek reveals why Spaniard is a \u2018huge inspiration\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe met in the evening with my whole team and the doctor, and we first called with a lawyer, I hired him over the phone basically, it was all very confusing,\u201d continued Swiatek.<\/p>\n \u201cHonestly, I was a total mess, I was basically joking, was being sarcastic, because I just had to do something to keep it together.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen everything came out [publicly], I was basically crying for two weeks, couldn\u2019t practice, because I felt that tennis did this to me and that I\u2019m in this place because of tennis.<\/p>\n \u201cI felt like I was losing my integrity, like no one is going to believe me that I didn\u2019t do anything wrong and that the whole world would turn their backs on me and that every accomplishment that I had would start to disappear.<\/p>\n \u201cWe started testing all of my substances and medicines that I take, and did the research, but, for most of the days, I tried to block it out.<\/p>\n \u201cI was meeting with my friends who didn\u2019t have a clue what was going on. They saw that I was not injured and not playing, so they guessed that I might be in trouble.<\/p>\n \u201cI noticed that there was PR fuss about players not being clear about what is going on with their fans, but, truth be told, if anyone were to say straight away with this kind of case without the data or proof that you did nothing wrong, we would all be finished and they would hate us.\u201d<\/p>\n The Pole will return to the tour at the Canadian Open, opening her campaign against world No 33 Hanyu Guo.<\/p>\n The post Iga Swiatek opens up on failed doping test, branding it a \u2018terrible\u2019 and \u2018confusing\u2019 experience<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Iga Swiatek revealed that she \u2018cried for two weeks\u2019 after receiving an email in November 2024 which informed her that she had failed a doping test a few months prior, calling the situation \u2018terrible\u2019 and \u2018confusing.\u2019 In late November 2024, it was announced that the six-time Grand Slam champion had accepted a one-month suspension by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Latest WTA News<\/h2>\n