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Lepchenko refuses to comment on doping allegations

Thursday, May 26 2016 by SNTV
  • After her opening round loss to Ekaterina Makarova at Roland Garros on Tuesday (24th May), Varvara Lepchenko refused to comment on reports that she had served a 'silent ban' after allegedly testing positive for meldonium.

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Varvara Lepchenko, world number 64:

    Q - I want to ask you something off topic about your time away. A bunch of us have heard that you had a positive test for meldonium and it was a very low amount. I think it's been resolved now. Can you please confirm that for us and talk about it?

    "At this moment I have no comment on any of this and I'm here just to answer tennis questions. If you have any questions about my match, I would gladly answer them. But otherwise, I just have no comments."

    Q - The last question I would ask then is would you say that's not true, that it did not happen?

    "Again, I just...like I said, I have no comments."

    Q - Sorry, just one more on that. When you say at this moment, does that mean you will be saying something in the future about it?

    "I'm here to answer questions about my match. If you guys have any questions about my match, I'm gladly to answer them."

    Q - During your match was it a distraction having these things having been said about you by Anatoly Glebov, and were you more affected by them being true or not true during your match?

    "You know, I was just focusing on my game. I don't really think about anything else."

    Q - Was what he said true? Are you going to deny this report that's in the media out there now? That someone made these comments about you...

    "Like I said, I have no comments. If you have a question about my match, go on.

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