THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Belgian tennis player Yanina Wickmayer isn’t saying whether she will appeal her one-year suspension for violating anti-doping rules.
At a tearful news conference Thursday, the U.S. Open semifinalist she said she has never tested positive for drugs.
The 20-year-old Wickmayer was suspended last week by the International Tennis Federation for failing three times to report her whereabouts for testing.
She complained tennis and anti-doping authorities did nothing to educate her about how to report her whereabouts online as required by international anti-doping rules.
She refused to answer any questions about any appeal.
Wickmayer said: "The people who made the rules are not really conscious of what this means for my future."