By Alberto Amalfi | @Tennis_Now | Friday, November 3, 2023

Stefano Battaglino has been suspended from tennis for 4 years after testing optimistic for a banned steroid.

The 25-year-old Italian offered a urine pattern at an M15 event in Morocco in September of 2022, which was discovered to include metabolites of clostebol. Clostebol—an anabolic androgenic steroid—is banned below Section S1 of the World Anti-Doping Agency Prohibited List. Testing optimistic for clostebol carries a compulsory provisional suspension.

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Battaglino, who has been suspended since February of 2023, requested a listening to earlier than an impartial tribunal convened by Sport Resolutions. The listening to was held remotely in October 2023.

The former world No. 760 argued that his violation was unintentional and that his sanction ought to be additional decreased on grounds of no fault or negligence or no important fault or negligence.

However, the impartial tribunal decided that Battaglino didn't show the supply of the clostebol and due to this fact discovered that the anti-doping rule violations have been intentional.

Consequently, the tribunal discovered he was not eligible for any reductions beneath the presumptive four-year sanction.

Battaglino’s suspension runs from February 1, 2023 till midnight of January thirty first, 2027, the International Tennis Integrity Agency introduced. The participant’s outcomes from the date of the optimistic take a look at are additionally to be disqualified, with forfeiture of rating factors and prize cash.

During the sanction interval, Battaglino is prohibited from enjoying in, teaching at, or attending any tennis occasion approved or sanctioned by the members of the ITIA (ATP, ITF, WTA, Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon and US Open) or any nationwide affiliation.

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