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The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) connected Thursday (October 30, 2025) suspended 2017 nationalist champion Dalwinder Singh for 2 years aft investigating affirmative for depletion of prohibited substance morphine.
Singh, who reached a career-high satellite singles ranking of 791 successful April 2017, tested affirmative for morphine successful March 2025 portion competing successful an ITF World Tennis Tour lawsuit successful Chandigarh.
"During the play of ineligibility, Singh is prohibited from playing in, coaching at, oregon attending immoderate tennis lawsuit authorised oregon sanctioned by the members of the ITIA (ATP, ITF, WTA, Tennis Australia, Fédération Française de Tennis, Wimbledon and USTA) oregon immoderate nationalist association," ITIA said successful a release.
Morphine is prohibited nether the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme (TADP), successful the class of Narcotics (section S7 of the 2025 World Anti-Doping Agency Prohibited List). Findings for Specified substances bash not necessitate a mandatory provisional suspension, keeping 29-year-old Singh eligible to vie portion a afloat probe took place.
Following correspondence with the ITIA, Singh admitted to the ADRV, asserting that they believed the root of the morphine to beryllium a pain-relief medicine taken connected the time of their affirmative test.
According to the player’s explanation, the medicine was prescribed astir 12 months earlier, pursuing wrist surgery.
However, Singh was incapable to supply further accusation to enactment their account, including immoderate packaging, receipts, prescriptions, oregon the sanction of the merchandise taken – falling abbreviated of the grounds indispensable to show source.
While the ITIA did not person the indispensable grounds to beryllium that Singh’s breach of the TADP was intentional, the subordinate could not found root of the affirmative test, and nary mitigating factors could beryllium considered to trim Singh’s level of fault.
In enactment with precedent and TADP rules, a two-year suspension was projected to the player, which was acceded to and became effectual connected October 22, 2025. The play of ineligibility volition extremity connected October 21, 2027.
Results, prize wealth and ranking points from the lawsuit successful which Singh tested affirmative are besides forfeited.
The ITIA is an autarkic assemblage established by its tennis members to promote, encourage, enhance, and safeguard the integrity of their nonrecreational tennis events.
