{"id":3598,"date":"2014-09-18T17:08:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T15:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/?p=3598"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:18:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:18:05","slug":"rici-biti-odrzavamo-ponosnu-tradiciju-tenisa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/iz_medija\/2014\/09\/18\/rici-biti-odrzavamo-ponosnu-tradiciju-tenisa\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricci Bitti: Maintaining tennis\u2019 proud traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>(sport360)<\/i> This time last year, you were about to introduce the biological passport to counter doping. Do you think it\u2019s been effective and do you think you\u2019re doing enough in terms of anti-doping measures?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019t have any positive tests, people say you aren\u2019t doing enough.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What we believe is that the tennis programme is very good, especially at the top. We have now introduced a lot more blood tests.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019t targeting tennis much. They focus more on cycling and other sports. We need them to do more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/sport360.com\/article\/international\/26225\/ricci-bitti-maintaining-tennis%E2%80%99-proud-traditions<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; (sport360) This time last year, you were about to introduce the biological passport to counter doping. Do you think it\u2019s been effective and do you think you\u2019re doing enough in terms of anti-doping measures? &nbsp; Doping is a very difficult matter to discuss because in doping, normally the authorities who test for it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/iz_medija\/2014\/09\/18\/rici-biti-odrzavamo-ponosnu-tradiciju-tenisa\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Ricci Bitti: Maintaining tennis\u2019 proud traditions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iz_medija"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16916,"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions\/16916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adas.org.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}