LONDON — Two-time Grand Slam champion Lleyton Hewitt has been suspended for 2 weeks for pushing an anti-doping official.
The Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company mentioned Wednesday that the sanction will probably be in impact from Sept. 25 till Oct. 7, in order to not be “unduly punitive” on Hewitt by impacting his Davis Cup schedule.
The incident occurred final November after Hewitt, Australia’s captain, pushed a 60-year-old volunteer anti-doping chaperone after his staff’s semifinal loss to Italy.
Hewitt denied the cost, pleading self-defence.
The ITIA referred the case to an impartial tribunal which upheld the cost of offensive conduct, stating that Hewitt’s actions “didn’t meet the necessities of self-defense” and that his habits was “not cheap and proportionate.”
The 44-year-old Hewitt, a former No. 1-ranked males’s tennis participant, has additionally been fined round $20,000.
