Wimbledon star banned for 18 months will get Nick Kyrgios assist

Wimbledon star Mikael Ymer, who knocked out No 9 seed Taylor Fritz on his approach to the third spherical at SW19 earlier this month, has been banned from all tennis occasions for 18 months. But he has discovered an ally in Nick Kyrgios with the Aussie calling for the penalty to be scrapped.

Ymer missed three anti-doping exams over the previous yr after failing to be on the location that he had beforehand declared. The Swede world No 51 fears it might take him three years to recuperate together with his profession below severe menace.

Ymer’s remaining missed doping check was as a result of he was compelled to maneuver lodges when taking part in on the Roanne Challenger. His agent did not replace his whereabouts within the system so when World Anti-Doping Agency employees turned up on the authentic resort, he was handed the ultimate strike.

Many tennis gamers have come out in criticism of the strict guidelines which they have to observe to adjust to anti-doping exams. And Kyrgios has leaped to the defence of his fellow skilled.

“Ridiculous. Ymer is one of the nicest guys on the tour and he shouldn’t be banned,” Kyrgios wrote on social media.

Explaining how his ban got here to be, Ymer mentioned: “It just happened to be, that WADA decided to show up for an out of competition test the following morning at the main hotel. The hotel where I tried to check in a few hours earlier, but was rejected,” Ymer wrote

“Upon studying that I wasn’t on the resort, and regardless of figuring out {that a} participant’s profession was on the road, he determined to run down the clock till he referred to as me. At my listening to he claimed it was protocol, that he wasn’t obligated to make an effort to contact me till 5 minutes earlier than my time was up.

“But at my hearing, my attorney was able to prove that this exact handler had gone out of his way to find a different player at another event, and therefore it is clear that the ‘protocol’ is only applicable if the handler so chooses.”

The ITF initially requested for a two-year ban however CAS instructed that the punishment ought to be 18 months.

A CAS assertion learn: “The majority of the Panel found that the degree of fault of the Player, a professional and experienced athlete, was high, although the third whereabouts failure could be described as the result of culpable negligence.”