It all started on November 26 last year. Just then the 20-year-old Russian tennis player Aleksiej Mokrov provided a test sample after one of the matches While playing in the ITF tournament in Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt. The presence of doping was detected in the samples.
20-year-old Russian tennis player Aleksiej Mokrov suspended for doping
On January 27 this year, Aleksiej Mokrov received a notification regarding charges in connection with violation of anti -doping regulations. It was suspected that the tennis player used forbidden drug – Nandrolone.
“The sample was divided into samples A and B. In both of them found the presence of nandrolone metabolites, a prohibited anabolic agent,” I read in “Daily Express”.
Now the tennis player has been temporarily suspended. The International Agency for Tennis Honesty (ITIA) informed about it. Mokrov did not appeal against this suspension and from January 27 he has not played in any tournaments.
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Mokrov takes 1413. ATP ranking. This is the highest position in his career. This season in the ITF rank tournaments had a balance: 31 wins and 14 failures. None of them won. He ended the last season with the balance sheet: 18 wins and 12 failures.
British tennis player Tara Moore was suspended for the use of nandrolone last time. It was in mid -2022. In addition to nandrolone, another forbidden substance was detected in her body – Boldenon. After 19 months, it turned out that the punishment was unfounded and the player was acquitted of using doping.