American tennis player Jenson Brooksby says he was tested for doping hours after his 18-month suspension for missing three tests was announced. Brooksby wrote on social media that whoever decided the timing of that test does not care about the mental health of players.
FILE - Jenson Brooksby reacts against Stefanos Tsitsipas, of Greece, at the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament Monday, March 14, 2022, in Indian Wells, Calif. Brooksby was given an 18-month suspension after an independent tribunal determined he missed three drug tests within the span of a year. Under antidoping rules, athletes can be penalized without a positive test if they have three “whereabout failures” within 12 months.
Under antidoping rules, athletes can be penalized without a positive test if they have three “whereabout failures” within 12 months. Brooksby, who is from California and is now based in Dallas, has a three-week window in which to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, something he plans to do. Brooksby has been ranked as high as No. 33. He is currently at No. 301 after going most of the season without competing because he needed two operations for dislocated wrist tendons: on his left arm in March, and on his right in May.
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