Hingis retires... Allegedly tested positive for cocaine

[theveed]

Hingis positive test deals further blow to troubled sport
By Patrick Vignal


PARIS, Nov 1 (Reuters) - The news that Martina Hingis tested positive for cocaine at this year's Wimbledon is the latest blow to a sport tarnished by several doping cases and allegations of match-fixing.


Former world number one Hingis, who revealed the positive test at a news conference on Thursday but strongly denied having ever taken drugs, announced she was retiring from professional tennis.
Several high-profile tennis players have been involved in doping scandals, notably Argentine Mariano Puerta, the 2005 French Open runner-up.
A former top 10 player, Puerta returned to action last June after a two-year suspension for doping, his second ban.


Puerta, who had previously served a nine-month suspension, tested positive for the banned stimulant etilefrine after his loss to Rafael Nadal in the final at Roland Garros in 2005. He had tested positive for anabolic agent clenbuterol in 2003.


Another former top 10 player from Argentina, Guillermo Canas served a 15-month doping ban from 2005 to 2006.
Canas, who tested positive for the banned diuretic hydrochlorothiazide (HCT), said he had ingested the substance in error after receiving medication from a tournament doctor intended for another player's coach but failed to have his ban overturned.


The first big tennis name to make headlines for doping was Czech Petr Korda, who won the Australian Open and peaked at number two in the ATP rankings.


A few months after his Melbourne triumph in 1998, he tested positive for nandrolone following a match at Wimbledon and was handed a one-year ban which effectively ended his career.


Before Hingis spoke to the media on Thursday, tennis officials were more concerned with alleged match-fixing than doping.


The problem came under the spotlight in August when a match between Russia's Nikolay Davydenko and lowly ranked Argentine Martin Vassallo Arguello in Poland was voided by British online betting exchange Betfair because of unusual betting patterns.


The governing bodies of tennis said earlier this month they had full confidence in the integrity of the sport but admitted there was a threat from potential match-fixing.


Several players, among them former Australian Open runner-up Arnaud Clement and fellow Frenchman Michael Llodra, the Wimbledon doubles champions, have since said they had turned down offers to throw a match in exchange of money.


"It is a dreadful disease which is a threat for tennis worldwide," French Tennis Federation president Christian Bimes said this week in Paris.
"We have to act straight away and be as severe with this as we are with doping."

[HIFI]

And she says the drug testing centers are wrong? What an excuse!

Hingis' moment in the spotlight has past. Magdusa siya!

[silver streak]

there could be some mistake...

[niky]

Say it ain't so, Swiss Miss!

What a blow to tennis... even though her time in the spotlight is past, Martina has been one of the bright spots in tennis in this past decade...

[empy]

ok lang Martina...i still think you're hot :inlove:

[CVT]

Whew! Indeed, a big blow to the sport.....

4303:gun:

[vctradingcubao]

Palagay ko, yung "poging" syota nya nagturo sa kanya! Sino na nga ba yun?

[baludoy]

Palagay ko, yung "poging" syota nya nagturo sa kanya! Sino na nga ba yun?

ah si stepanek ba tukoy mo bro. engaged to be married na nga sila pero 'di natuloy. did you that there's a supposed curse in the atp tour that whoever hingis dates, he's sure to end up in the losing side of his career. kaya nga daw ilan relationships niya nag sour dahil dito sa "supposed curse" na 'to

[chua_riwap]

One beautiful face gone..........

[noj]

pag nawalan na ng "raket" si hingis baka mag-pose sa nudie mags?!

(o baka naman meron na at na-miss ko) hehe

[kingkaboodles]

sayang naman. di maganda ang pag retire nya sa tennis.

[vctradingcubao]

ah si stepanek ba tukoy mo bro. engaged to be married na nga sila pero 'di natuloy. did you that there's a supposed curse in the atp tour that whoever hingis dates, he's sure to end up in the losing side of his career. kaya nga daw ilan relationships niya nag sour dahil dito sa "supposed curse" na 'to

Aha, siya na nga! Radek Stepanek (ganda ng match nila ni Djokovic last US Open). Engaged to be married pero di natuloy? Wow, cursed nga siguro 'to si Martina! Anyway, eh good for top 100 lang naman talaga si Stepanek, at palagay ko eh di na mag improve rankings nya. yung ke Hingis naman, eh yan siguro problema ng tao na di naranasan ang maging "regular teenager". 14 pa lang kasi yan eh champion na at very famous na! Sayang! I was rooting for her pa naman when she started her comeback!

[nicolodeon]

So...there's a chance that Serena might be proven to have taken anabolics...the reason she has the physique and face of the former Detroit Piston, Chicago Bulls and LA Lakers bad-boy?

[vctradingcubao]

So...there's a chance that Serena might be proven to have taken anabolics...the reason she has the physique and face of the former Detroit Piston, Chicago Bulls and LA Lakers bad-boy?

Si Dennis Rodman? kamukha ba talaga?

[u2ykins]

sayang si hingis. i always watch her game and routing for her. good luck na lang sa magiging bagong mundo niya.

[chua_riwap]

So...there's a chance that Serena might be proven to have taken anabolics...the reason she has the physique and face of the former Detroit Piston, Chicago Bulls and LA Lakers bad-boy?

Yung sister naman nya (Venus), medyo hawig ni Sugar Ray Leonard.

Pag maganda, dapat wag muna mag-retire. Yung Williams na lang........