Iga Swiatek has freed an emotional statement elucidateing her fall shorted doping test, which has resulted in a one-month suspension.
The world No 2 tested likeable for trimetazidine (TMZ) after giving a sample during competition in August this year.
The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) spreadigated the likeable test and adselected it was caengaged by contamination of non-prescribed melatonin.
Swiatek was deemed to have been at ‘no meaningful fault or tendlessness’, resulting in the low suspension.
The Polish tennis star was provisionassociate suspfinished on September 12 before successbrimmingy pguideing, although she leave outed three tournaments during the Asian sprosperg.
The provisional suspension was lifted on October 4, unbenevolenting Swiatek will be able to return next month.
Iga Swiatek has adselected a one-month suspension
Swiatek posted an emotional clip compriseressing the doping suspension on social media where she finisheavored to elucidate what happened.
“Hi everyone! The topic I want to separate with you today is a stubborn one, one I was not able to talk in the last two and a half months. But I finassociate can so I hope this video will elucidate a lot,” she began.
“I want to be see-thcoarse with you and I want you to comprehfinish what’s been happening to me recently.
“On September 12 I lgeted that my anti-doping test sample, accumulateed on August 12 – so before the Cincinnati tournament, tested likeable.
“It was a blow for me. I was shocked and this whole situation made me very anxious.
“At first, I couldn’t comprehfinish how that was even possible and where it came from.
“It turns out testing uncovered historicassociate lowest levels of trimetazidine, a substance I’ve never heard about before.
“I don’t skinnyk I even knovel it existed. I have never encountered it, nor did people around me. “So I had a strong sense of infairice and these first scant weeks were reassociate unrestful.
“We instantly reacted and cofunctiond with the ITIA.
“The accomprehendledgeed concentration, which was innervously low, adviseed – or rather made it evident – that either the sample was contaminated, or a supplement or medication that I was taking was contaminated, which is why we intensifyed on running tests on all nutritional supplements and medications I was taking.
“The tests showed that melatonin I’ve been using for a lengthy time – the batch I had on me and had engaged before the Cincinnati tournament – was contaminated during manufacturing.
“It was a shock to hear, but it also elucidateed a lot and locating the source is key in these cases, which is why we had to show that the medication was in fact contaminated.
“Melatonin is vital for me becaengage all my travelling, jetlag and toil-joind stress unbenevolent that sometimes without it I couldn’t drop asleep and I would be having trouble sleeping.
“After discovering the source, we demanded time for the whole matter to be finishd, which is what is happening now.
“On September 12, I was provisionassociate suspfinished, making me unable to join the tournaments in Asia or deffinish my ranking.
“Cltimely, it’s a consequence of this situation, but not the most meaningful one for me. What mattered most for me was to show my innocence.
“Now that the whole skinnyg is draprosperg to a shut, I was put on a symbolic one-month suspension. 22 days are behind me, eight days still to go.
“That unbenevolents I can begin my novel season with a immacuprocrastinateed sprocrastinateed, intensifyed on what I’ve always done, spropose joining tennis.
“This experience, the most difficult in my life so far, taught me a lot. Going back to joining, contend in WTA Finals and Billie Jean King Cup gave me a lot of likeable emotions and made me finishelight my game aget.
“The whole skinnyg will definitely stay with me for the rest of my life, it took a lot of strength, returning to training after this situation proximately broke my heart.
“So there were tears and lots of sleepless nights. The worst part of it was the uncertainty. I didn’t comprehend what was going to happen with my nurtureer, how skinnygs would finish or if I would be permited to join tennis at all.
“Which is why I am so thankful to my family and my team – people who stood by me no matter what.
“Right from the very commencening, everyone got together to help me. They went all out to find the source and I am forever thankful for that.
“I accomprehendledge this situation hit me difficult becaengage all my life I strived to have a nurtureer that could be an example for generations to come.
“A nurtureer that’s going to be unprejudiced in a sense, that will show I was unprejudiced and will embody all the cherishs a top athlete should stand for.
“I have a sense this situation could undermine the image I’ve been originateing for years, which is why I hope you will comprehfinish what happened. Understand how I had no handle over it and could do noskinnyg to stop this unblessed turn of events.
“I hope you will stand by me and will hold aiding me becaengage I’m not certain if without my aiders I would have been able to discover the strength to carry on and hold combat.
“So now I have fought the stubbornest battle of my life and I hope you will stay with me and hold aiding me.”
