Ex-Australian tennis player Marinko Matosevic gets four-year doping suspension
The Straits Times
Matosevic was found to have committed five anti-doping rule violations between 2018 and 2020. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Former tennis player and coach Marinko Matosevic of Australia has been handed a four-year ban after breaching anti-doping rules, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) said on March 16.
Matosevic, 40, reached a career-high singles ranking of 39 in 2013. He retired from the sport in 2018 and has since become a coach, working with Australian players Chris O'Connell and Jordan Thompson.
"An independent tribunal determined that Matosevic committed five anti-doping rule violations between 2018 and 2020...," the ITIA said in a statement.
"... including use of a prohibited method through blood doping (while an active player) and facilitating another player to blood dope, providing advice to other players on how to avoid positive tests, and use and possession of the prohibited substance clenbuterol."
In a statement published by Australian tennis website The First Serve in February, Matosevic admitted he underwent a blood transfusion in Morelos, Mexico towards the end of his playing career.
"I was disgusted with myself, I retired the following week at the age of 32-and-a-half," he added.
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