Former top-10 skilled tennis participant Fernando Verdasco accepted a voluntary provisional doping suspension of two months after testing optimistic for a drug for ADHD, the International Tennis Integrity Agency introduced on Wednesday.
Verdasco, who turns 39 this month, mentioned he was taking methylphenidate as a drug prescribed by his physician to deal with ADHD however forgot to resume the therapeutic use exemption for the drug. The integrity company mentioned Verdasco has now been given an exemption by the World Anti-Doping Agency going ahead. He examined optimistic in an ATP
Challenger match in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in February.
The integrity company mentioned in a information launch that it “accepts that the player did not intend to cheat, that his violation was unintentional and unintentional, and that he does not attribute this to any significant fault or negligence,” and due to this fact What might have been two years suspension was diminished to 2 months. Verdasco will likely be eligible to compete on January 8.
The Spaniard is a four-time Grand Slam quarterfinalist, most just lately reaching that stage at Wimbledon in 2013, the place he blew a two-set lead in a five-set defeat to eventual champion Andy Murray. Verdasco reached a career-best rating of No. 7 in April 2009 and is at present No. 125.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
