Andrej Martin has been banned from tennis until further notice as the Slovakian tested positive for a banned substance.
Martin has been a longtime professional playing on the tour for many years and doing so quite well. The 32-year-old has not had the best of seasons this year seeing his ranking drop outside of the top 100. The sample was collected on June 7th when Martin competed at the Bratislava challenger back home in Slovakia.
He immediatelly releaed a statemenet rejecting the idea that he took someting on purpose:
“From my youngest days, my parents taught me to be honest both in sports and in life. I've always been the same, people who know me are very aware of how much I judge fraud and lies. The news about the positive doping test shocked me. I categorically reject the idea that I deliberately took something on the list of prohibited substances. I use very few supplements and have not changed them in the last five years.
“I always approached training and swords honestly, because I thought that with honesty alone you can become a real winner. However, I strongly condemn all prohibited methods of ‘correcting’ sports results. This whole situation is incomprehensible to me because I have done dozens of tests during my entire career and I never suspected that every time the result would be negative.”
The ITF has now launched an investigation to see why it came to a positive result and as long as it's ongoing Martin will be prohibited from playing.
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