"After losing in the Paris Masters 1000 in 2021, I traveled to Roanne, France to play a Challenger. Often the tournament has a main hotel and a secondary one. I am usually booked into the main official hotel, and was told by my agent I was booked into the official hotel. However, when I tried to check in, it turned out I had actually been moved to the secondary hotel, which is an 8 min drive from the main hotel."
"This is not uncommon, so I didn’t think twice about it and went to my room in the secondary hotel with no fuss. It just happened to be, that WADA decided to show up for an out of competition test the following morning at the main hotel. The hotel were I tried to check in a few hours earlier, but was rejected."
"The tribunal agreed with me and cleared me of wrongdoing, but the ITF felt compelled to appeal to CAS. That was utterly disappointing."
"The ITF is supposed to be a protector of our sport and its participants and should only reluctantly ban one of their players from being able to compete. I would think they would be happy to learn that an independant tribunal had decided there was no reason to move forward with a ban."
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