Ex-Wimbledon champion Vondrousova appeals to CAS over four-year doping ban

The Czech jock was issued a suspension successful June aft she did not taxable her illustration erstwhile notified by a doping power officer.

Former Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against her four-year ban for missing a doping trial past year, the sport’s highest judicial assemblage said.

CAS connected Tuesday confirmed the receipt of the entreaty and said a proceeding had not yet been scheduled. Vondrousova’s prohibition ends connected June 21, 2030, erstwhile she volition beryllium 30.

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Vondrousova was issued the suspension successful June aft the International Tennis Integrity Agency said the Czech did not taxable her illustration erstwhile notified by a doping power serviceman successful an out-of-competition trial effort astatine her location successful December.

The 27-year-old said successful April she had “reached a breaking constituent aft months of carnal and intelligence stress” and added that an serviceman arriving astatine 8:15pm demanding an contiguous trial felt similar a superior intrusion into her privacy.

Vondrousova has said she ne'er doped, and a trial taken 3 days aft the December 3 incidental came backmost negative.

The erstwhile satellite fig six has not played since skipping the Adelaide International successful January owed to a enarthrosis wounded and has dropped to satellite fig 153.

She won the 2023 Wimbledon title, having antecedently made the French Open last successful 2019 and bagged a metallic medal astatine the Tokyo Olympics successful 2021.