Just a few months after the doping case involving Jannik Sinner came to light, the tennis world was once again faced with a similar situation, this time in the women’s circuit. The different parties involved wasted no time in speaking out publicly to offer their perspectives, including Iga Swiatek herself. The ITIA itself shared the conclusion that the positive test resulted from a contaminated medication, but controversy was already guaranteed. With all WTA Tour matches played, the Polish player could also take a moment to see how this entire situation unfolded, triggering hundreds and thousands of opinions from both current and former players.
“It’s unfortunate for her. She provided a negative test in Paris at the Olympics, negative doping tests in New York (US Open), so this wasn’t an ongoing issue. It’s [expletive],” Andy expressed in his Podcast (Served with Andy Roddick) regarding the recent case of the current world number 2. “The dumbest people in our sport say: ‘Oh, doping!’ I’ve taken melatonin before, who can guarantee that ours isn’t contaminated?”
Roddick trusts the statements of expert scientists
“Are we going to cling to a billionth of a gram of something that hasn’t enhanced performance? What are we trying to solve with the ITIA and then with the WADA? What do we aim to solve? Performance enhancement. If we’re seeing, and all the scientists are telling us in independent hearings, those kinds of people are saying, ‘It didn’t enhance performance at all.’ So why do we care?” concluded the former American player, who decisively addresses the issue, clarifying what he believes were Swiatek’s intentions, as she couldn’t gain any advantage from consuming this amount of the substance for which she tested positive in an anti-doping test.
