A Low-ranked American Tennis Player Is Banned After Testing Positive For Marijuana At A Tournament – News18

LONDON: A low-ranked American tennis participant who competed for the University of North Carolina has been suspended for 2 years after testing constructive for marijuana throughout an ATP Challenger match, the International Tennis Integrity Agency introduced Tuesday.

The ITIA mentioned Casey Kania’s in-competitors urine check contained hashish in August 2023 at Cary, North Carolina, the place he misplaced within the doubles quarterfinals. He is a 21-12 months-previous with a profession-excessive doubles rating of 1,317th and $482 in profession tennis earnings, in response to the ATP web site.

The tour’s web site exhibits that each one of his rating factors and all of that prize cash had been earned in the course of the decrease-tier match in Cary — and every part he accrued there should now be relinquished, the ITIA mentioned.

As a university sophomore at UNC final 12 months, Kania acquired an at-massive bid to the NCAA doubles championship and misplaced within the spherical of 32, in response to the school staff’s web site.

The information launch Tuesday from the London-based ITIA mentioned Kania was unable to point out he bore no fault for the violation, however the company mentioned it did settle for that the participant “did not intentionally breach the provisions” of the game’s anti-doping program. That was the explanation for a two-12 months ban, the ITIA mentioned; an intentional violation is punishable by a 4-12 months suspension.

Kania’s interval of ineligibility started on Feb. 2, when the ITIA’s determination was issued, and can expire on Feb. 1, 2026. His outcomes, prize cash and rating factors from the Cary occasion, and any match after that till now, are forfeited.

During a suspension of this type, a participant is barred from enjoying in — and even attending — any tennis occasion sanctioned by the ATP males’s skilled tour, the WTA girls’s tour, the International Tennis Federation or the organizations that run the 4 Grand Slam tournaments.

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