Russian teenager banned from tennis for 9 months following anti-doping breach

Muricas News  — 

A 14-year-old Russian tennis participant has been banned from the game for 9 months following an anti-doping breach, the Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company (ITIA) has mentioned in a assertion on Friday.

The ITIA mentioned the participant, who is not going to be named due to their age, had examined constructive for Meldonium – a metabolic modulator – at a match in January.

The assertion mentioned the participant had admitted to a breach of the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme (TADP) guidelines.

“As a result of participant’s age, stage and lack of entry to Anti-Doping schooling, the sanction was set at 9 months, backdated to the date of the participant’s Provisional Suspension (5 March 2022),” the assertion learn.

“Which means the participant is ineligible to compete in or attend any tennis occasions authorised, organised or sanctioned by the governing our bodies of the game till 4 December 2022.”

One-to-one schooling periods could be offered to the participant, the assertion continued.

Russian athletes are unable to compete beneath their nation’s identify, flag and nationwide anthem at main worldwide sporting occasions till December 16, 2022 after the nation was banned for doping non-compliance.

Initially banned by the World Anti-Doping Company (WADA) for 4 years, the punishment was halved on attraction in 2020 by the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

Russia just isn't allowed to compete at this yr’s FIFA males’s World Cup, which takes place in Qatar from November 20 to December 18.