WADA Will not Enchantment Swiatek Choice

By Richard Pagliaro | @TennisNow  | Monday, January 20, 2025
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Iga Swiatek will not face any additional punishment after testing constructive for the banned substance TMZ.

WADA introduced right this moment it won’t file an attraction to the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport in Swiatek’s case.

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5-time Grand Slam champion Swiatek served a one-month suspension after testing constructive for the banned substance trimetazidine (TMZ) in an out-of-competition pattern in August.

WADA stated it has “performed a full overview” of the case and isn’t interesting the choice as a result of it accepts Swiatek’s declare of contamination via melatonin 

“On 28 November, the Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company (ITIA), the unbiased physique that delivers anti-doping packages on behalf of the Worldwide Tennis Federation, introduced that Ms. Świątek had accepted a one-month interval of ineligibility after the ITIA decided that her constructive take a look at for TMZ was attributable to a contaminated melatonin product that’s regulated as a drugs in Poland and was sourced from a good pharmacy in that nation,” WADA stated in a press release. “WADA has performed a full overview of the case file associated to the ITIA determination, which it obtained on 29 November.

“WADA’s scientific consultants have confirmed that the precise .contaminated melatonin situation, as offered by the athlete and accepted by the ITIA, is believable and that there can be no scientific grounds to problem it at CAS. Additional, WADA sought recommendation from exterior authorized counsel, who thought of that the athlete’s contamination rationalization was effectively evidenced, that the ITIA determination was compliant with the World Anti-Doping Code, and that there was no affordable foundation to attraction it to the CAS.”

The second-seeded Swiatek, who will face American Emma Navarro within the Australian open quarterfinals, stated she’s happy to have closure.

“I am simply happy that I bought a closure, and I type of wish to deal with the event already, so it is good that the method is over,” Swiatek stated.