American tennis player Jenson Brooksby has been slapped with an 18-month ban after missing three drug tests in a 12-month window.
The ban was confirmed by the International Tennis Integrity Agency who released a statement on Wednesday.The 22-year-old from California, who reached a career high world ranking of 33rd in 2022, will be eligible to return to competition in January 2025.
He indicated he planned to appeal the suspension, vowing to “keep fighting” in a post on Instagram after his punishment was announced. Brooksby said the doping control officer had arrived at his hotel on June 4 to be told that he had not checked in. “For some reason the hotel told the doping control officer that I had not yet checked in, but they did show him their computer screen which had my room number listed.
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