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Canas hit with two year ban for doping
Canas, winner of six singles titles and two doubles titles in his career, has not played since reaching the semi-finals of the Halle grasscourt tournament in the first week of June because of the investigation. In June he protested his innocence. "I've kept quiet for a long time because the ATP didn't allow me to speak," Canas said in respected newspaper La Nacion. "I don't know how the rumours started and I'm not interested. Now, I've got chance to speak and I want people to know from my own mouth. "I didn't want to go through this. I've never looked to take anything extra or anything which isn't permitted to gain an advantage in tennis. It's ugly and it's strange. "In doping, there are a lot of medicines which give positive results but which are not drugs. A herb tea infusion can give a positive result. "The matter of the positive is difficult. I don't know what happened. I've been over everything I've taken with my team and there is nothing which is prohibited. I trust the system. I hope it's a mistake and nothing more." The ATP said on Monday that an independent Tennis Anti-Doping Program tribunal was convened in New York on July 21-22 to hear the player's appeal. The tribunal ruled unanimously that Canas had committed a doping offence under the rules of the ATP.
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