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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My guess is that you don't know very much about tennis.  Tennis currently has one of the strongest anti-drug programs in organized sports, as opposed to cycling (e.g. Armstrong)  which was rumored to have one of the more corrupt anti-drug monitoring systems in organized sports.  All of the top players are subjected to routine on-site tournament drug testing as well as regular unannounced out-of-tournament testing.  However, if the NY Post article is to be believed (rather doubtful, NY Post, really?!?) the tester violated procedure by arriving and not identifying himself.  It's supposed to be unannounced, not anonymous testing.

In addition, that NY Post article is 4 years old from November 2011.  Serena injured herself in a bizarre restaurant accident at the end of 2010 (she stepped on a broken glass table in sandals and sliced up her foot).  While out for 6 months, she had a hematoma and pulmonary embolism and nearly died.  She was completely out of the sport for 6 months.  When she returned she had dropped out of the top 10.  In November 2011, she was still outside the top-10 and not fully back in shape from six months of no play and no training.  Since that time, she worked hard and got herself back into shape and starting in 2013 became the dominant force she is in tennis.  [b]From 2013 on, she has been subjected to significant drug testing and its unlikely that any steroid could pass the drug testing that tennis subjects top-100 let alone top-10 players to.[/b]  If you don't believe, take a look at the histories of Martina Hingis, Wayne Odesnik, Marin Cilic, Barbora Strycova, Sesil Karatantcheva, Guillermo Canas and  Robbie Kendrick to just name the more publicized infractions.  There are still flaws to the system, but tennis still has one of the stricter drug testing programs and steroids are definitely identified.[/quote]

This is incredibly naive.  Designer drugs and steroids are the name of the game for top athletes. They know what is tested and how it's tested.  There are labs and doctors who have dedicated their entire careers to developing drugs and methods that don't show up on those tests. A clean drug test means nothing at that level.  She has the money and they have the expertise to make sure her tests are clean. [/quote]

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