Alize Cornet cleared of doping charge

Published by Tennismash

FREE TO PLAY: Alize Cornet in action at the Australian Open earlier this year; Getty Images

French player Alize Cornet is free to continue her career after an ITF independent tribunal dismissed her case for missing three drug tests within a 12-month period.

The world No.32 argued she missed random drug tests at her Cannes apartment, where she had told authorities where she would be, in November 2016 and July 2017 as she was travelling to tournaments.

A broken intercom was blamed for a third missed test in October 2017.

The independent tribunal found the doping control officer did not take “reasonable” steps to locate Cornet on that occasion, so dismissed the charge after hearing “frank and compelling” evidence from the Frenchwoman.

READ MORE: ITF statement on Cornet case

Cornet, who had passed three other random drug tests during this period, said the result was “a huge relief”.

 

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