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Czech tennis player Marketa Vondrousova has spoken about the effects of her four-year suspension on her daily life and career. The 2023 Wimbledon champion wrote on social media that she cannot compete in tournaments, train at a tennis club or use its facilities during the ban.
The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) accused Vondrousova in December 2025 of preventing an official who had come to her home to conduct an out-of-competition doping test from entering. She was suspended for four years in June.
Vondrousova said the ban has also affected her personal life. She cannot attend her friends’ matches or support her boyfriend, a professional tennis player, from the stands at tournaments. She said she watches his matches from a hotel room and cried at the first tournament she attended with him after her suspension.
The athlete must continue to report her whereabouts and make herself available for testing during a one-hour window each day. She said she has undergone regular doping tests and that all results so far have been negative. Vondrousova added that another negative test would not change her situation.
The tennis player said it was painful to be called a “doper” and to hear rumors that she had supposedly smoked marijuana. In her view, the four-year suspension is not only a ban on playing tennis but a punishment that affects many areas of her life.
