A Low-ranked American Tennis Participant Is Banned After Testing Constructive For Marijuana At A Match

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

The ITIA stated Casey Kania’s in-competition urine take a look at contained hashish in August 2023 at Cary, North Carolina, the place he misplaced within the doubles quarterfinals. He’s a 21-year-old with a career-high doubles rating of 1,317th and $482 in profession tennis earnings, in accordance with the ATP web site.

The tour’s web site exhibits that every one of his rating factors and all of that prize cash have been earned throughout the lower-tier event in Cary — and all the things he amassed there should now be relinquished, the ITIA stated.

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

The information launch Tuesday from the London-based ITIA stated Kania was unable to point out he bore no fault for the violation, however the company stated it did settle for that the participant “didn’t deliberately breach the provisions” of the game’s anti-doping program. That was the rationale for a two-year ban, the ITIA stated; an intentional violation is punishable by a four-year suspension.

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

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

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