World No.1 Novak Djokovic is at the heart of a new controversy in the Davis Cup for having refused, with his Serbian team, to submit to an anti-doping test before their quarter-final won on Thursday against the United Kingdom.
Novak Djokovic and his teammates from the Serbian Davis Cup team refused to take a doping test before their quarter-final won Thursday against the United Kingdom (2-0), before submitting to it after the match, according to Marca.
Djokovic accepted the samples after the meeting
Decisive in the qualification of the Serbs for the semi-finals, Djokovic agreed to take blood and urine samples after his victory in the second singles against the Briton Cameron Norrie 6-4, 6-4 in Malaga, revealed Friday the Spanish sports daily, citing statements from the 37-year-old player.
The world No.1 nevertheless criticized according to Marca the methods of the representatives of the World Anti-Doping Agency present on site, explaining that they did not understand why the test had been scheduled before his match, at the risk of disrupting his preparation. In the semi-final of the Davis Cup, an event already won in 2010 by Djokovic, Serbia will face Italy on Saturday.