Tennis chief calls for end to doping secrecy

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International Tennis Federation president David Haggerty believes players who fail drugs tests and receive provisional bans should be named to avoid secrecy within the sport.

Haggerty is confident that making it transparent and naming the offenders would help eradicate suspicions about players who in the past have been known to mysteriously disappear from action while the suspension is served before the results are announced.

Russia’s five-time grand slam champion Maria Sharapova shocked the sporting world by announcing in March she had failed a drugs test at the Australian Open two months earlier after testing positive for banned drug meldonium.

The 29-year-old former world No.1 is currently awaiting the outcome of an anti-doping committee hearing, which was held last week, with a four-year ban the maximum possible punishment.

Regarding Sharapova’s case, Haggerty admitted he was unclear over the details of the pending outcome as he told The Guardian: “I really can’t tell you what [the date of a decision] would be but what I can tell you is, generally, it’s about a …

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