"Slowly starting to think, that not everyone gets an equal process" - Eva Lys reacts with horror to the Swiatek doping case

Eva Lys has commented on the current situation in the Iga Swiatek doping case. Five-time Grand Slam winner Iga Swiatek has accepted a one-month ban following a positive doping test. The ITIA confirmed on Thursday that the Polish player had tested positive for trimetazidine due to an impurity in a drug. The world No. 2 accepted the ban and received support from the WTA.

Lys, who herself recalls a case in 2022 in which her colleague Tara Moore received a 19-month ban from the Bogota Open after eating contaminated meat without, of course, knowing it: "What about players that ate contaminated meat in south America ? Why didnt @TaraMoore92 get a one month suspension? I'm slowly starting to think, that not everyone gets an equal process…

Moore and Chilean Barbara Gatica, who also suffered the same fate, had to wait a long time for their bans to be lifted, which also meant they lost ranking points and combatitive playing practice. Moore herself criticized Swiatek's procedure, as she was able to take part in the Billie Jean King Cup despite a ban: "When will the @WTA@atptour@ITFTennis@Wimbledon@usopen@rolandgarros@AustralianOpen investigate the ITIA & their procedures for a more fair/ open approach? The @ptpaplayers cannot do this alone! Players are afraid of the institutions that are supposed to protect us! Ask them!" she posted on X.

This discrepancy in the treatment of well-known players (see Jannik Sinner ) compared to lesser-known players or those lower down the rankings is a fact that Eva Lys neither can nor wants to understand: "There are alot of lower ranked players, that are not getting the same treatment as „higher ranked“ players. i'm not saying someone is/ or is not innocent, i'm saying that everyone deserves equal opportunities.

Other players have also expressed criticism in connection with the doping affair surrounding Jannik Sinner about the apparently different treatment of the cases and now, in the case of Swiatek, more and more voices are calling for a regulated and uniform treatment of all players in such cases.