Romanian tennis player Maria Sara Popa recently found herself at the center of a media storm after her controversial statements regarding the Patrick Mouratoglou Academy allegedly doping young players and has now publicly apologized to the famous coach.
In last month’s interview with AS.ro, the 18-year-old Popa claimed that the academy provided junior players with certain substances, implying that these were performance-enhancing drugs: “There are athletes who take those substances, only they don’t get caught because they know exactly when to eliminate the substance and they know exactly when to take them.