Former world number one and winner of two Grand Slam singles tournaments Eugene Kafelnikov negatively characterized the current situation in tennis with the Italian’s positive doping tests Jannik sinner and polkas Igi Schwiatek .
“Sometimes I wonder, ‘Why the hell didn’t I take steroids throughout my career so that instead of playing 170 games a year, maybe I could play 300?’ Which happens in tennis today is a real shame,” Kafelnikov wrote on his social networks.
The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) announced on Thursday that world number 2 Schwiatek had tested positive for the banned substance trimetazidine in August. As a result, it was decided that the athlete had no significant culpability or negligence, she was suspended for one month and she had already served most of her sentence.
In August, the ITIA announced that world number one Sinner had tested positive for two drugs in March. He avoided disqualification because he proved that the banned substance, clostebol, entered his body by accident.
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