Hingis given two-year ban for failed dope test
AFP, January, 2008
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LONDON (AFP) — Former world number one Martina Hingis has been banned for two years for failing a doping test, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) announced on Friday.
Hingis tested positive for cocaine on June 29 at Wimbledon and although the Swiss player denied she had taken the drug an independent Anti-Doping Tribunal after a two-day hearing found that she had committed an offence.
The two-year ban is effective from October 1, but the 27-year-old Hingis has alrady announced her retirement from the sport.
The ITF said in a statement: "The Tribunal rejected the suggestion made on behalf of Ms Hingis that there were doubts about the identity and/or integrity of the sample attributed to her.
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"It therefore found that she had committed a Doping Offence under Article C.1 of the Programme (presence of a Prohibited Substance in player's sample).
"The Tribunal ...
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