Tennis Champ Nadal Says Doping Officials Harassing Players

by Tanya on  June 02, 2009 at 10:23 AM Lifestyle News
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Reigning tennis champ, Rafael Nadal launched a broadside at the world sport's new doping rules. He has claimed that players are being harassed by drug testers.

The world No1 and four-time Roland Garros champion cruised through his third-round clash with Hewitt, advancing 6-1 6-3 6-1 in 111 minutes.

But Nadal's biggest issue seemed to be the World Anti-Doping Agency regulations, which demand players let drug testers know their whereabouts for a period of one hour every day.

Nadal revealed that testers paid their latest visit when he was at home in Madrid last week.

"I was with my friends. Then I had a bath and my mother called me. She told me the guys were in my house in Madrid,"' Nadal said.

"It was my only free evening. I have to take this anti-doping control. It was the same several days ago. (David) Ferrer and Fernando (Verdasco) were tested as well, at 6am.

"It's crazy. I don't know if, from a legal point of view, this is correct. That is, to know where you are every single moment of your life, and to account for this. This is what I think," The Daily Telegraph quoted Nadal, as saying.

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