Craig Tiley, the Australian Open boss, has defended the tournament's drug testing regime after two top players, Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek, faced recent doping allegations.
Australian Open boss Craig Tiley has backed the sport’s drug-testing regime as two of the world’s best players arrive in Melbourne on the back of recent doping controversies. Tournament director Tiley declined to comment specifically on cases involving world No.1 Jannik Sinner and Polish champion Iga Swiatek, but said he believed players were doing the right thing.
Luis Enrique Ascui Swiatek served a one-month ban at the end of last year after testing positive to banned substance trimetazidine, while Sinner was cleared by the International Tennis Integrity Agency after twice testing positive to prohibited substance clostebol.“One thing that we need to remember – the fact that we’re having these reports, and they’re public, is that we have a very strong testing team, an international agency, and that’s the right thing to be doing,” Tiley said in Melbourne on Saturday.“As far as the specific cases , I won’t comment on those because there is a lot of stuff I don’t know about, but both of the No.1 players have been cleared. “All I will say is that the regime, the testing regime, is rigorous and, and my experience around those players and all the other players is that they’re doing the right thing.” Tiley said he was not concerned about the prospect of Sinner playing and winning the Melbourne grand slam event this month while the WADA appeal was still to be heard.Nick Kyrgios and 10-time Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic have been less forgiving of the way officials have handled the Sinner and Swiatek cases.“Two world No.1s both getting done for doping is disgusting for our sport – it’s a horrible look,” Kyrgios said in Brisbane last week. Sinner has maintained that his contamination came from his physiotherapist continuing to massage him while using a healing spray that contained clostebol to treat a cut.Organisers bumped up the total pool available to players by more than 11 per cent year-on-year. This year’s singles champions will receive $
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