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Article: [ WIMBLEDON, England -- Tennis players aren't part of a Spanish drug investigation, and that includes French Open champion Rafael Nadal, the International Tennis Federation said Wednesday.... ]
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- July 6, 2006
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WIMBLEDON, England -- Tennis players aren't part of a Spanish drug
investigation, and that includes French Open champion Rafael Nadal,
the International Tennis Federation said Wednesday.
On Monday, Nadal said at Wimbledon that he was considering suing a
French newspaper which loosely linked him to the Spanish doping
probe.
"We have today been assured in writing by the Spanish Ministry of
Education and Science that no tennis players, either Spanish or
foreign, are under investigation," ITF president Francesco Ricci
Bitti said.
"We feel that it is unfair and unfortunate that tennis players,
including Rafael Nadal, have been named, erroneously, as under
investigation. All top players are ...