By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Thursday, November 14, 2024
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Nikola Bartunkova can return to tennis now.
The 2023 Wimbledon girls’ finalist accepted a six-month suspension after testing positive for the banned substance trimetazidine in February and March.
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The International Tennis Integrity Agency announced today the Czech player bore “no significant fault or negligence” for the unintentional anti-doping violation. Bartunkova became eligible to return to tennis on November 11th.
The 18-year-old Bartunkova reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 226 in April 2024.
Following an investigation, the ITIA accepted that the positive tests for trimetazidine were “caused by the contamination of a supplement containing milk thistle extract, that the violation was not intentional, and that the player bore no significant fault or negligence,” the ITIA said…
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