IGA Swiatek admits that strict doping protocols can be stressful for players, but have the impression that it has “crossed the worst” after surviving its positive test on contaminated melatonin. Paranoiaa spread among tennis players after Swiatek and Jannik Sinner failed drug screening tests without committing intentional doping. Swiatek served a suspension of a month at the end of last year after the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) accepted that free -sales melatonin that it had taken as sleeping was contaminated by the prohibited substance of trimetazidine.
The sinner is currently serving a three -month ban after having tested positive twice for the prohibited substance Clostebol, which entered its system via its physiotherapist, which treated a cut on his hand with an over -the -counter spray which contains the substance.
“Honestly, after a few years, you think about it all the time,” said Swiatek on Wednesday when they were asked for additional precautions that players had to join the anti -doping rules.
“It gives a little anxiety and I am not only talking about myself, because I have somehow accustomed to the system and I crossed the worst, and I was able to come back and I was able to solve it, so I have the impression that nothing can stop me.”
While Swiatek has managed to get out on the other side, she is aware of the general state of panic which resulted from her cases and his sinful cases.
“I even know by other players than it is not easy, and the whole system is simply difficult because I did not have much control over what happened to me, and I can imagine some players, they are always afraid that it could happen to them,” added the world number two.
The location system used by the dictated anti -doping authorities that an athlete must specify an hour of each day of the year when it is in a specific location and is available for tests.
“By always giving your location and everything, sometimes, in terms of system, it is simply difficult to catch up,” said Swiatek. “Because, as every day we travel, we must literally say where we are. If we forget, we could have a non-spectacle, then three no shows and it is a ban.
“So, yes, there is a lot of pressure with that, and it’s not easy to manage this, but that’s what it is.”
Tunisian Jabeur Ons echoed the feelings of Swiatek and said that she was “traumatized” by the sound of her door bell, which frequently rings at 5 am for a drug test.
“I know that we must keep a sport clean and it is very important. But yes, certainly, I am just very worried,” said the triple major finalist.
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