Coco Gauff shares her negative experience with an anti-doping tester. File
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Protocols designed to protect tennis from doping are in the spotlight as players open up about their experiences navigating the system in the aftermath of a four-year ban handed to 2023 Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova — not for testing positive but for refusing to take a test.
Players are required to provide a 60-minute time slot each day to be available for testing, plus the International Tennis Integrity Agency says that if a doping control officer “locates and notifies a player outside of that hour, they must complete the test.”
Published – June 30, 2026 07:50 pm IST


