Top-ranked tennis player Jannik Sinner will go to sport’s highest court in April for the World Anti-Doping Agency’s appeal that seeks to ban him from the sport for at least one year.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Friday it scheduled a closed-doors hearing on April 16-17 at its headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Italian Sinner failed two drug tests in March for low levels of the anabolic androgenic steroid clostebol but was cleared by an independent tribunal in August after it accepted his explanation of unintentional contamination.
However, the World Anti-Doping Agency appealed that decision at CAS in September, leaving the Italian still facing the possibility of being banned for up to two years.
“No parties requested a public hearing and it will be conducted behind closed doors,” CAS said in a statement about the two-day hearing.
Sinner, who won the U.S. Open in September after details of his case were revealed, is in Melbourne preparing to defend his Australian Open title.
(With inputs from Reuters)
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