US EditionAustralian Coach, Former Player Matosevic Gets Four-Year Doping Suspension
The International Tennis Integrity Agency banned Matosevic for four years for blood doping and related violations, including facilitating doping and advising on avoiding tests.
- On Monday, the International Tennis Integrity Agency announced a four-year ban for Marinko Matosevic, former tennis player and coach who reached a career-high singles ranking of 39 in 2013.
- A tribunal found five anti-doping violations between 2018 and 2020, including a blood transfusion in Morelos, Mexico, facilitating another player's doping, advising on avoiding positive tests, and clenbuterol use.
- A hearing scheduled for 9 February 2026 proceeded after he ceased engagement and publicly admitted to one blood-doping charge shortly before the hearing.
- The sanction prevents him from coaching or working with any player and bars attendance at ITIA-member events, affecting his ties with Chris O'Connell and Jordan Thompson.
- Matosevic said in a public statement that 'I was disgusted with myself, I retired the following week at the age of 32-and-a-half,' and the tribunal dismissed his allegations as without merit, confirming the ITIA acted within the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme authority.
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Disgraced tennis star handed four-year ban and forced to hand back thousands of pounds in prize money
Former Australian men's number one Marinko Matosevic has been handed a four-year suspension by the International Tennis Integrity Agency following five anti-doping rule breaches.The 40-year-old, who reached a career-high world ranking of 39 in 2013, was found guilty of using blood doping whilst still competing professionally, as well as enabling another player to engage in the same prohibited practice.An independent tribunal upheld the charges a…
Former Australian tennis player Marinko Matošević was suspended for four years for violating anti-doping rules between 2018 and 2020.
Australian tennis player Marinko Matosevic, once ranked among the world's top 50 players, has been banned from the sport for four years for violating doping rules.
The former Australian player, now a coach, was sentenced on Tuesday to four years' suspension for offences committed between 2018 and 2020.
The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) has announced that former Australian number 1 Marinko Matošević has been banned from playing and participating in tennis for four years due to doping violations.
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