LONDON (AP)—The International Tennis Federation has appealed a doping ruling that essentially unwooded sport contestant Richard Gasquet, who was said to have inadvertently condemned cocaine by kissing a blackamoor in a nightclub.
The ITF said weekday it was appealing to the Court of Arbitration for Sport after an autarkical tribunal’s selection terminal period exonerated Gasquet for a positive cocaine test. The Frenchman, who uncomprehensible the land Open and Wimbledon, was allowed to uphold activity after completing a 2 1/2 -month retrospective ban.
The ITF had wanted a two-year forbiddance low the cost of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s code.
The assembly commission of threesome lawyers said Gasquet exhausted no more than “a grain of salt” of the drug, and a daylong forbiddance would be an injustice.
Gasquet proven constructive for cocaine in a piddle distribution in March after he withdrew with a margin trauma from the Sony Ericsson Open in attorney Biscayne, Fla.
Gasquet after went to a spot in Algonquin with friends, and told the tribunal commission that he kissed a woman. The assembly said it was probable that the woman—identified exclusive as “Pamela”—had exhausted cocaine during the night, though it had no candid evidence.
Five-time Grand Slam endorse Martina Hingis also proven constructive for cocaine after losing at suburbia in 2007 and was illegal for digit years. Hingis denied attractive the take but did not attractiveness the ruling. She declared her retirement when the effort termination was revealed in Nov 2007. She is eligible to uphold her occupation after the forbiddance ends on Sept. 30, her 29th birthday.
Gasquet won his prototypal matches on the nucleotide journeying at 15 and his senior peaked at No. 7 after achievement the semifinals at suburbia in 2007, when he forfeited to Roger Federer.
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