Wimbledon winner Purcell admits anti-doping breach

Two-time Grand Slam doubles champion Max Purcell has been provisionally suspended aft admitting a breach of anti-doping rules.

The 26-year-old has taken a voluntary suspension aft admitting breaking International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) anti-doping rules relating to the "use of a prohibited method".

The Australian, who won the 2022 Wimbledon doubles title alongside Matthew Ebden, is now provisionally banned from playing in, coaching astatine aliases attending immoderate tennis event.

The ITIA did not item the magnitude of Purcell's prohibition but it was effective arsenic of 12 December 2024.

"Time served nether provisional suspension will beryllium credited against immoderate early sanction," the ITIA said

The provisional suspension could norm Purcell retired of January's Australian Open successful Melbourne, which starts connected 12 January.

Tennis Australia opportunity the ITIA person confirmed the breach related to a prohibited method "rather than the beingness of a prohibited substance".

The ITIA charged men's world number 1 Jannik Sinner and women's world number 2 Iga Swiatek complete breaches of its anti-doping programme earlier this year.

Swiatek accepted a one-month suspension aft testing affirmative for a banned bosom medicine successful August.

The 23-year-old Pole said the usurpation was not intentional.

Sinner doubly tested affirmative for traces of the steroid clostebol successful March, which he denied knowingly using.

An independent sheet accepted location was "no responsibility aliases negligence" connected Sinner's behalf.

The Italian, 23, is awaiting the result of an entreaty to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) complete his exoneration.