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Cagla Buyukakcay doping case: “I have never heard of Ractopamine before.”

Former world No.60 Cagla Buyukakcay of Turkey has been provisionally suspended by the ITF for doping, as substance called Ractopamine was found in her urine sample provided during the Winners Open 2021 in August.

During the WTA 250 tournament in Romania, where she lost in the first round to Slovakia’s Kristina Kucova, Buyukakcay provided a urine sample and a laboratory in Montreal, Canada found it to contain Ractopamine, a non-Specified Substance, which is prohibited under category S1 of the 2021 WADA Prohibited List (Anabolic Agents), and therefore also prohibited under the Programme.