Zverev on the anti-doping agency: "I had to pick up my three-year-old daughter, but they told me to come back"
Currently in Spain, Zverev will attempt to win another trophy in Madrid after his victories in 2018 and 2021. He will start his campaign against Bautista Agut. During the pre-tournament press conference, the German touched on various topics, including anti-doping controls:
"Despite the cases involving Sinner and Swiatek, nothing has changed for us. It’s a painful process, to be honest, because we have to be available at a specific time and place.
We provide our details and have to be ready for one hour every day. But at the same time, if they don’t show up at the scheduled time, you still have to come back.
This happened to me at the end of December last year when I had to pick up my daughter from Nice Airport and was subjected to a doping test. I was supposed to be available for the agency around 7 or 8 in the morning, but they arrived at 9 PM.
They called me and said, 'You have to come back.' I replied, 'I can’t, I have to pick up a three-year-old girl.' And they wouldn’t take no for an answer: 'No, you have to return. Come back, no matter what.'
It’s like they’re taking away part of our freedom to live. If you want to do it within the hour, fine, that’s the rule, but then you have to give us the freedom to live our lives.
Just because you decide to come at a random time outside the allocated window doesn’t mean I should have to completely change my plans and drop everything I had going on just to suddenly be available for you. That’s not fair, in my opinion."
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