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| ITF Press Release |
| CAS revises sanction in case of Filippo Volandri |
London, England, 19 May 2009 - The International Tennis Federation announced that the Court of Arbitration for Sport (“CAS”) has partially upheld the appeal of Filippo Volandri against the decision of an independent Anti-Doping Tribunal issued on 15 January.
Filippo Volandri, a 27-year-old Italian tennis player, was found by an independent Anti-Doping Tribunal convened under the 2008 Tennis Anti-Doping Programme to have committed a Doping Offence. The independent Tribunal found that a sample provided by Mr Volandri on 13 March 2008 at the Indian Wells tournament, California, USA, contained salbutamol at a concentration greater than 1,000 ng/ml. The tribunal imposed a period of Ineligibility on Mr Volandri of three months, starting from 15 January 2009 and therefore ending at midnight on 14 April 2009.
The CAS rejected Mr Volandri's appeal against the original tribunal's finding that he had committed a doping offence, but found that the sanction should be a warning and no ban (not a 3 month ban, as the original tribunal had imposed), and disqualification of only one event's results (not any subsequent results, as the original tribunal had imposed). Mr Volandri is therefore reinstated with immediate effect.
The Tennis Anti-Doping Programme is a comprehensive and internationally recognised drug-testing programme that applies to all players competing at tournaments sanctioned by the ITF, ATP World Tour and Sony Ericsson WTA Tour. Players are tested for substances prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency and upon a finding that a Doping Offence has been committed the sanctions are imposed in accordance with the requirements of the World Anti-Doping Code. More background information on the Programme, sanctions, tennis statistics and related information can be found at www.itftennis.com/antidoping.
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