"There is no point": Iga Swiatek doesn't see WADA appealing doping ruling after serving one month ban

Friday, 27 December 2024 at 10:30

Iga Swiatek was quizzed for the first time about her ban for doping after taking the substance Trimetazidine, a heart medication used to help the effects of jetlag. The former World No.1 doesn't see any reason why an appeal would be needed.

Swiatek will play her first official tournament since the scandal emerged in late November. She escaped with a one-month ban for the violation and will still play the mixed teams tournament as well as the Australian Open.

While saying it was a mentally tough time, she also added that those who have read the documents understand why she had no fault or negligence for this.

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"I think people, most of them, are understanding," said the five-time Grand Slam champion.

"And the ones who read the documents and are aware of how the system works, they know that I had no fault and I had no influence on what was going on.

"I try to just go on with my life and focus on different things, focus on preparing for the season and on tennis, because this is the best thing you can do after a case like that," she said.

While she also said there is no reason for appeal from WADA to CAS in her view. Sinner will have to go to CAS in early 2025 while Simona Halep also had to after a long drawn out process which saw her off court for nearly two years.

"I gave every possible evidence and there is not much, honestly, more to do," she said.

"There is no point to do an appeal in our opinion. But, you know, I guess overall, this whole process was pretty abstract sometimes and hard to understand from a point of view where you don't think about the law and everything.

"But honestly, this is about the law and the wording and this kind of stuff. So I'm not expecting an appeal, but I have kind of no influence on what's going to happen. But I can say from the processes that I went through and how they treated me from the beginning, that it seemed fair for me," she said.

"I managed to give the source (of the contamination) pretty quickly. That's why the case closed, pretty quickly."

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