Iga Swiatek celebrates her win over Liudmila Samsonova of Russia during the 2024 U.S. Open Tennis Championships in New York City on Sept. 2 and is finishing a month-long suspension for unintentionally taking a banned substance. File Photo by Corey Sipkin/UPI | License Photo
Nov. 28 (UPI) — Poland’s Iga Świątek is banned from playing professional tennis for a month after testing positive for the heart medication trimetazidine, the U.K.-based International Tennis Integrity Agency announced Thursday. Świątek is the Women’s Tennis Association’s second-ranked player behind top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus. Advertisement