Alizé Cornet’s father brought a repairman to fix the intercom for his daughter’s apartment in Cannes, France, in October, a couple of weeks after she realized it wasn’t working. The delay nearly cost Cornet a year of her tennis career.
Cornet, 28, was charged by the tennis antidoping program in January after missing three out-of-competition tests, the third of which she missed while in her apartment eating breakfast, oblivious to the doping control officer pushing the malfunctioning intercom button below.
After a hearing on May 1, an independent tribunal on Tuesday dismissed the charges against Cornet, ruling that the officer did not sufficiently take “reasonable” measures to contact Cornet while outside her building.