{"id":326982,"date":"2025-12-04T10:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/326982\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T10:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:44:08","slug":"wimbledon-winner-asks-is-it-normal-for-doping-officers-to-sit-in-our-living-rooms-at-night-waiting-for-us-to-pee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/326982\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon winner asks ‘is it normal for doping officers to sit in our living rooms at night waiting for us to pee?’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marketa Vondrousova has voiced her unhappiness with one anti-doping officer\u2019s behaviour after she was forced to provide a sample outside of her testing window.<\/p>\n

Under the International Tennis Integrity Agency\u2019s (ITIA) Tennis Anti-Doping Programme (TADP), players on the International Registered Testing Pool (IRTP) must submit their whereabouts information on the World Anti-Doping Agency\u2019s (WADA) platform, ADAMS, in order to allow anti-doping officials to conduct no-advance-notice out-of-competition testing.<\/p>\n

Those on the IRTP must provide whereabouts information for every day of the year and three non-compliances \u2013 filing failures or missed tests \u2013 in the space of 12 months could result in a ban.<\/p>\n

2023 Wimbledon winner Vondrousova\u2019s<\/a> name appears on the list, meaning she has to make herself available for testing at least once a day with testers allowed to arrive without informing her.<\/p>\n

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And while the current world No 34 has no issues with being at home during her allocated slot every day, she is upset by the fact that an anti-doping official wanted to test her outside of declared time and, on top of that, the person was not respectful.<\/p>\n

In an Instagram Story \u2013 in which she tagged the WTA, International Tennis Federation and WADA \u2013 the Czech wrote: \u201cEvery day, we are required to be home for one specific hour for doping control. I respect that rule \u2013 every single day. Tonight, however, a tester arrived at 8:15 pm and told me that my declared time doesn\u2019t matter and that I must be tested right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I pointed out that it\u2019s outside my testing window and a serious intrusion into my privacy, I was told: \u2018This is the life of a professional athlete.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it normal for doping officers to sit in our living rooms at night waiting for us to pee? This is not about avoiding testing \u2013 it\u2019s about respect. Respect for the rules that we follow, and for the personal life that we\u2019re entitled to after a long day of training and competition. Rules should apply to everyone, even to those enforcing them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marketa Vondrousova has voiced her unhappiness with one anti-doping officer\u2019s behaviour after she was forced to provide a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-326982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}