Tennis players will lose a longstanding exemption from strict anti-doping whereabouts \u2060requirements during tournaments from January 2027, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Changes \u200cto the World Anti-Doping Code require players in a sport’s \u200cRegistered Testing Pool (RTP) to provide a daily \u200c60-minute testing window during competition from 2027, ending an \u200cexemption previously granted to tennis because of the \u200cunpredictability of players’ schedules.<\/p>\n
The ITIA, an independent body that protects fairness in the game, said that it would \u200creduce the size of its RTP, \u2060moving around 80% \u200cof players currently in the group to an expanded testing \u200bpool where the daily 60-minute requirement will not apply.<\/p>\n
“Players who remain in the reduced \u200bRTP will be required to provide a daily 60-minute time slot like athletes in every WADA-compliant sport, \u2060both in and \u200bout of competition,” the ITIA added.<\/p>\n
The number of players selected across both testing pools will be broadly consistent with the current testing pools, and \u200ctesting frequency and volume are unlikely to change.<\/p>\n
The new rules will also provide greater protection for players who can establish that a positive test was caused by contamination, including through medication, food or drink, environmental exposure or another person.<\/p>\n
They will also provide greater flexibility in sanctions in certain circumstances, with rehabilitation-focused options for some recreational \u200cdrug cases unrelated to sporting performance.<\/p>\n
Players will \u200bbe informed in November which pool they have \u200cbeen assigned to, though individual classifications will not be made public.<\/p>\n
All players, regardless of their testing pool status, must provide a sample when requested by a doping control officer, with \u2060refusal carrying a \u2060potential ban of up \u200cto four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennis players will lose a longstanding exemption from strict anti-doping whereabouts \u2060requirements during tournaments from January 2027, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-810067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}