{"id":197353,"date":"2025-10-08T11:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T11:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/197353\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T11:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T11:08:09","slug":"tennis-players-accused-of-doping-or-match-fixing-can-now-get-financial-and-mental-health-support-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/197353\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis players accused of doping or match-fixing can now get financial and mental-health support \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tennis players involved in doping or match-fixing investigations are now eligible for free legal help, confidential counseling or money to test products they\u2019ve taken that might have led to a positive drug test, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The trial program begins immediately and will be reviewed after next year.<\/p>\n

A player can receive up to $5,000 for a lab accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to check a medicine or a supplement for contamination or the same amount for help identifying possible sources of contaminated meat \u2014 a frequent explanation for failed doping tests in sports.<\/p>\n

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Sport Resolutions, an independent dispute resolution service that runs tribunals for anti-doping cases in tennis, is extending its free legal support in such cases to when a player first tests positive for a banned substance. Until now, this service was available only after a player was charged.<\/p>\n

And Sporting Chance, an organization that works with athletes on their mental health, will provide six sessions of well-being support for people being investigated for anti-corruption or anti-doping violations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe recognize the process can come at both a financial and emotional cost,\u201d ITIA CEO Karen Moorhouse said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo player picks up a tennis racket as a child with any motivation other than playing the game,\u201d she said. \u201cIndividuals find themselves in these situations for a lot of reasons, and so no matter what those reasons are, and where the case ends up, they also deserve someone to talk to.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ITIA was involved in two particularly high-profile doping cases in tennis that began last year and ultimately resulted short bans for players who have been ranked No. 1 and won multiple Grand Slam titles, Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek.<\/p>\n

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Sinner reached a deal with WADA to accept a three-month suspension that ended this April after that group appealed an exoneration from the ITIA based on what it determined was an accidental contamination by an anabolic steroid.<\/p>\n

\n Swiatek agreed to a one-month ban that was partly served during last offseason after she tested positive because of what she said was a contaminated non-prescription medication.<\/p>\n

Some tennis players, notably 24-time major champion Novak Djokovic, have been critical of the way cases were handled, saying there was a sense of favoritism toward the sport\u2019s biggest stars.<\/p>\n

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Howard Fendrich has been the AP\u2019s tennis writer since 2002. Find his stories here: https:\/\/apnews.com\/author\/howard-fendrich. More AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennis players involved in doping or match-fixing investigations are now eligible for free legal help, confidential counseling or…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-197353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}