By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Thursday, November 14, 2024
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Nikola Bartunkova can return to tennis now.
The 2023 Wimbledon women’ finalist accepted a six-month suspension after testing constructive for the banned substance trimetazidine in February and March.
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The Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company introduced at this time the Czech participant bore “no vital fault or negligence” for the unintentional anti-doping violation. Bartunkova grew to become eligible to return to tennis on November eleventh.
The 18-year-old Bartunkova reached a career-high singles rating of No. 226 in April 2024.
Following an investigation, the ITIA accepted that the constructive assessments for trimetazidine have been “brought on by the contamination of a complement containing milk thistle extract, that the violation was not intentional, and that the participant bore no vital fault or negligence,” the ITIA mentioned in an announcement.
After investigation, Bartunkova instructed the ITIA on October twenty seventh {that a} contaminated complement was the supply of the trimetazidine present in her pattern.
In response, the ITIA instructed the impartial and WADA-accredited Sports activities Drugs Analysis & Testing Laboratory (SMRTL) in Utah, USA, to check the complement. These findings have been confirmed, and the state of affairs was verified by an impartial scientific professional as believable.
Following an interview with Bartunkova, the ITIA accepted that the violation was not intentional and that the she bore “No Vital Fault or Negligence” for the anti-doping violation.
The Czech teenager is at the moment ranked No. 488 and has earned $84,031 in profession prize cash.
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