"I don't understand why the ITF keeps harassing players like that": Cornet latest to throw support behind Ymer amid doping ordeal

WTA player Alize Cornet is the latest to voice her support for Mikael Ymer amid his 18-month ban for anti-doping offences.

Albeit Ymer's ban relates to a trio of out-of-competition doping tests which he missed in a 12-month period. Being cleared by an independent tribunal back in June 2022, the ITF filed an appeal with CAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport).

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The appeal was successful and a ban was implemented. Ymer has since vented his frustrations on social media in a lengthy statement.

Cornet herself was banned for a short time in 2018 but won her case and was cleared in six months. She still called it though the worst of her career and compared the treatment of Ymer to harassment.

"I don't understand why the ITF keeps harassing players like that. The same thing happened to me and I got cleared by the independent tribunal. It was still the worst 6 months of my career. Thank God the ITF didn't appeal. I can't even imagine how you must feel... Be strong."

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