Dan Evans: British tennis player banned for one year for positive cocaine test

British tennis participant dan evans has been banned for 365 days after checking out fantastic for cocaine.

The british number 4 supplied the high-quality pattern at the barcelona open on 24 april and his suspension is back-dated to start from that date.

Evans, 27, will consequently be free to go back to motion from 24 april 2018.

The global tennis federation (itf) stated evans "right away admitted his violation" and it prevalent his account of the way the cocaine were given into his system.

He bore "no large fault or negligence for the violation," the itf decision said.

In addition to those info, the governing body explained that because cocaine is not overall performance improving and that it turned into taken out of competition a capability four-yr ban turned into alternatively three hundred and sixty five days.

Upon learning of his high-quality check evans, from solihull, said in june: "i made a mistake and that i need to resist it."

In step with the findings posted by means of the itf on tuesday, evans said "leftover" cocaine had by chance blended with accepted medicinal drug within the "equal pocket of his washbag".

He stated he took the ones pills day by day from 20 april 2017 to 24 april 2017, the date on which he furnished his pattern.

It become efficaciously proven by way of evans' expert dr pascal kintz that the quantity of cocaine ingested by way of evans changed into no more than 1‐3 mg - a amount "inconsistent with knowing ingestion and steady as an alternative with inadvertent contamination".