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Canas hit with two year ban for doping
Updated: 2005-08-09 09:08
LONDON, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Argentine world number 10 Guillermo Canas has been
banned for two years for doping, men's tennis organisers the ATP said on Monday.
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| Argentine tennis player Guillermo Canas answers questions from the
media during a news conference in Buenos Aires, August 8, 2005. Argentine
world number 10 Canas has been banned for two years for doping, men's
tennis organisers the ATP said on Monday.
[Reuters] | The baseliner was hit with the
suspension from competition after he tested positive for the prohibited diuretic
hydrochlorothiazide (HCT) at the ATP tournament in Acapulco, Mexico in February.
Canas must repay $276,070 in prize money and forfeit 525 singles and 95
doubles ranking points as part of the sanction. He will be eligible to return to
competition on June 11, 2007.
The 27-year-old becomes the fourth Argentine to fall foul of doping tests in
recent years after Juan Ignacio Chela, Guillermo Coria, who reached the final of
Roland Garros in 2004, and this year's French Open finalist Mariano Puerta.
Chela was suspended for three months in 2001 after testing positive for the
steroid methyltestosterone. Later that year Coria was banned for seven months
and fined $98,500 after testing positive for nandrolone.
Puerta was suspended for nine months in 2004 after he was found to have the
banned substance clenbuterol in his system during a doping test at a tournament
in Chile in 2003.
Tennis has now signed up to the World Anti-Doping Agency's protocol which
demands an automatic two-year ban for doping offences such as Canas's.
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