The day after the announcement of the one-month suspension of world number two Iga Swiatek, who tested positive in an anti-doping test, Richard Gasquet (38), on the circuit since 2002, criticized the behavior of the sporting justice system.
It is a phenomenon which tarnishes the image of world tennis. While the Jannik Sinner affair, a player who tested positive for an anabolic, could lead to a suspension of one or two years for the current world number one, that of Iga Swiatek, announced yesterday after his positive test for trimetazidine, added more weight and importance to the case of doping in tennis.
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“I think all sports are quite difficult. All sports can have doping at some point. Tennis can be one of them. Obviously, there was cycling. Now, there is tennis… Everything is possible ” Richard Gasquet told us this Friday from the Colomiers Tennis Club, where he will play the Interclub final tomorrow.
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“What worries me the most is that we don’t really understand how it’s going to happen. You learn about it afterwards! Normally, there’s a trial, afterwards, you have a deliberation, you have a sentence handed down. There, we learn everything at the same time and that’s not normal, it doesn’t mean anything,” said the man who recently announced the date of his professional retirement.
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Before Richard Gasquet pointed the finger at the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA): “I find that the file is very poorly managed. You suddenly learn, “well, he has been judged”. Meanwhile , nothing happened, we didn’t know anything, it’s not normal, it’s not professional. Afterwards, the file itself, I don’t know anything about it. didn’t look at it too much. In any case, it’s bad. managed, poorly fought and poorly done, it’s a certainty. Sports justice, really. There’s a cacophony there and no one knows anything. pro. Everyone says it. It’s a bit grotesque.”
