Sweden’s Mikael Ymer has been suspended from skilled tennis for 18 months after the International Tennis Federation (ITF) appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) when he was initially cleared of three whereabout failures.
Ymer mentioned he had been charged with a possible anti-doping rule violation in January 2022 for lacking three out-of-competition check makes an attempt in a 12-month interval.
The 24-year-old mentioned he had fought the fees in a listening to and was cleared by an unbiased tribunal in June 2022 however that the ITF had appealed the choice.
The CAS mentioned the ITF had requested a two-year interval of ineligibility however the panel partially upheld the attraction to impose an 18-month suspension.
“Having already been cleared once, and wholeheartedly standing by the fact that I do not feel that the third offence was committed, I find their decision to try me again and subsequently find me guilty, unfair,” Ymer wrote on Twitter.
“On top of that, I find it difficult to comprehend that they found an 18 month suspension to be a just punishment.
“I don’t consider I broke these guidelines and my conscience is evident with God as my witness.”
The CAS said Ymer accepted the first two whereabouts failures on April 22 and August 10, 2021, but contested the third on November 7, which was blamed on miscommunication with his agent.
“The first-instance tribunal discovered that… the Doping Control Officer did all that was required of him to find the participant, however that no negligence could possibly be attributed to the participant or his agent,” the CAS mentioned.
“The participant was accommodated in a distinct lodge than the one he had requested when making his reservation, however the participant’s agent (who up to date the participant’s whereabouts on his behalf) didn’t obtain news of that change and subsequently didn’t make the required replace on that event.”
The CAS panel concluded Ymer had failed in ensuring his compliance with the anti-doping regulations by omitting to verify his whereabouts filing and by assuming it would be corrected by his agent or by the tennis authorities.
Ymer is ranked quantity 51 on the earth and reached the third spherical at Wimbledon after upsetting ninth seed Taylor Fritz earlier this month.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
