Ricci Bitti: Maintaining tennis’ proud traditions

Objavljeno: 18.9.2014

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(sport360) This time last year, you were about to introduce the biological passport to counter doping. Do you think it’s been effective and do you think you’re doing enough in terms of anti-doping measures?

 

Doping is a very difficult matter to discuss because in doping, normally the authorities who test for it are in a lose-lose situation. Because if you have a positive test, it means that you have a problem in the sport. If you don’t have any positive tests, people say you aren’t doing enough.

 

What we believe is that the tennis programme is very good, especially at the top. We have now introduced a lot more blood tests.

 

We believe that in terms of quality we are very high. Having said that, we have to be vigilant. In terms of quantity, we depend also on the national agencies but they aren’t targeting tennis much. They focus more on cycling and other sports. We need them to do more.

 
 

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