Fernando Verdasco has accepted a two-month suspension after forgetting to resume his Therapeutic Use Exemption and failing a doping check.
The 38-year-old Spaniard acknowledged the presence of the ADHD remedy, methylphenidate, in a urine pattern. Vedasco accepted a voluntary provisional suspension and can serve a two month suspension, the International Tennis Integrity Agency introduced right this moment.
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Former world No. 7 Verdasco was examined at an ATP Challenger occasion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in February 2022.
Verdasco admitted the Anti-Doping rule violation and defined that he had been medically recognized with ADHD and legitimately used methylphenidate as remedy prescribed by his doctor to deal with the situation in accordance with a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE), however had forgotten to resume his TUE when it expired.
Since the discovering, there was an ongoing TUE re-application course of involving the participant, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the ITIA. The participant has been granted a brand new TUE by WADA for his remedy transferring forwards, and has withdrawn from the retroactive TUE course of to resolve this case.
The ITIA mentioned it “accepts that the player did not intend to cheat, that his violation was inadvertent and unintentional, and that he bears No Significant Fault or Negligence for it. In the specific circumstances of this case, based on the player’s degree of Fault, the TADP allows for the applicable period of ineligibility to be reduced from two years to two months.”
Verdasco’s two-month suspension will conclude on Sunday, January 8, 2023.
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