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 once to begin with cleared of 3 whereabouts disasters.
Ymer stated he have been charged with a possible anti-doping rule violation in January 2022 for lacking 3 out-of-competition check makes an attempt in a 12-month duration.
The 24-year-old stated he had fought the fees in a listening to and was once cleared through an impartial tribunal in June 2022 however that the ITF had appealed the verdict.
The CAS stated the ITF had asked a two-year duration of ineligibility however the panel partly 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 offense 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 do not consider I broke the ones regulations and my moral sense is obvious with God as my witness.”
The CAS said Ymer accepted the first two whereabouts failures on April 22 and Aug. 10, 2021, but contested the third on Nov. 7, which was blamed on miscommunication with his agent.
“The first-instance tribunal discovered that… the Doping Control Officer did all that was once required of him to find the participant, however that no negligence may well be attributed to the participant or his agent,” the CAS said.
“The participant was once accommodated in a special lodge than the only he had asked when making his reservation, however the participant’s agent (who up to date the participant’s whereabouts on his behalf) didn’t obtain information of that fluctuate and subsequently didn’t make the vital replace on that instance.”
The CAS panel concluded Ymer had failed in making sure his compliance with the anti-doping laws through omitting to ensure his whereabouts submitting and through assuming it might be corrected through his agent or through the tennis government.
Ymer is ranked No. 51 on the planet and reached the 3rd spherical at Wimbledon after scary 9th seed Taylor Fritz previous this month.
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