{"id":425213,"date":"2024-11-29T08:52:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T08:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=425213"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"World-tennis-No-2-Swiatek-accepts-one-month-doping-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/World-tennis-No-2-Swiatek-accepts-one-month-doping-suspension\/","title":{"rendered":"World tennis No.2 Swiatek accepts one-month doping suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French Open champion Iga Swiatek escaped with a one-month suspension for a positive doping test after convincing the International Tennis Integrity Agency that it had not been intentional, the ITIA announced on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Poland&#8217;s Swiatek, 23, tested positive for the prohibited substance trimetazidine (TMZ) in an out-of-competition sample in August 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The ITIA, however, accepted that it was caused by &#8220;the contamination of a regulated non-prescription medication (melatonin), manufactured and sold in Poland that the player had been taking for jet lag and sleep issues&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The violation was therefore not intentional&#8230; the player&#8217;s level of fault was considered to be at the lowest end of the range for &#8216;No Significant Fault or Negligence&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Swiatek, who has five Grand Slam titles to her name, accepted the month&#8217;s suspension.<\/p>\n<p>She was provisionally suspended from September 22 until October 4, missing three tournaments, which counts towards the sanction, leaving eight days remaining.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She will also forfeit prize money from the Cincinnati Open, the tournament directly following the test, where she lost to world number one Aryna Sabalenka in the final.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>es\/bsp\/ea<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/5cf07a083809402768dfa2611553c286.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Iga Swiatek has been hit with a one-month ban<\/p>\n<p>-JORGE GUERRERO<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French Open champion Iga Swiatek escaped with a one-month suspension for a positive doping test&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23812],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}