INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — In the week since Maria Sharapova revealed her positive test for the recently banned substance meldonium, other players have had to face revived doping allegations.
Discussing Sharapova’s announcement on the French show “Le Grand 8” last week, the former French minister of health and sport Roselyne Bachelot accused Rafael Nadal.
“They just don’t reveal positive tests or the sanctions given in tennis,” Bachelot said in French. “But curiously, you will learn that a tennis player had an injury that keeps him or her off the courts for months, like the famous injury of Rafael Nadal that kept him off the court for seven months — it’s very certainly due to a positive test.