MELBOURNE, Australia — Two-time Grand Slam profitable doubles participant Max Purcell has entered a voluntary provisional suspension beneath tennis’ anti-doping guidelines.
The Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company introduced the sanction in an announcement on Monday after the 26-year-old Australian admitted to violating Article 2.2 of the Tennis Anti-Doping Program “regarding the usage of a Prohibited Methodology”.
The ITIA mentioned the suspension got here into impact on 12 Dec., and time served beneath provisional suspension will probably be credited towards any future sanction. The size of time of the voluntary suspension was not specified by the ITIA.
“Through the provisional suspension, Purcell is prohibited from enjoying in, teaching at, or attending any tennis occasion approved or sanctioned by the members of the ITIA (ATP, ITF, WTA, Tennis Australia, Fédération Française de Tennis, Wimbledon and USTA) or any nationwide affiliation,” the ITIA assertion learn.
Purcell, with compatriot Jordan Thompson, received the U.S. Open in September and received Wimbledon with one other Australian, Matthew Ebden, in 2022. He’s presently ranked No. 12 in doubles.
He additionally completed as a runner-up within the Australian Open doubles ultimate twice, in 2020 and 2022.
Purcell, ranked No. 105 in singles, was not listed on the Australian Open entry lists launched earlier this month and didn’t obtain a wildcard or characteristic on the qualifying entries.
The ITIA didn’t say whether or not Purcell’s absence from the draw of the match beginning Jan. 12. was because of the sanction.
The most recent doping violation in tennis comes simply weeks after five-time Grand Slam champion Iga Swiatek accepted a one-month suspension after testing optimistic for the banned substance trimetazidine.
Prime-ranked males’s participant Jannik Sinner, winner of two Grand Slams this 12 months, was exonerated by the ITIA after twice testing optimistic for a hint quantity of an anabolic steroid in March with the World Anti-Doping Company interesting the ruling.