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 The 14-times grand slam champion said on Monday he was suing
Roselyne Bachelot, a former health, sports and social affairs
minister, after she alleged the Spaniard had failed a drugs test.
The Spaniard wrote to the ITF asking his drug test results to be
made public, British media have reported.
“It can’t be free any more in our tennis world to speak and to
accuse without evidence," media reports quoted the 29-year-old as
saying.
"Please make all my information public, please make public my
biological passport and my complete history of anti-doping controls
and tests. From now on I ask you to communicate when I am tested,
and the results, as soon as they are ready from your labs.”
Nadal has never failed a drug test.
The ITF declined Nadal's request but said the player was free to
publish them himself.
“Mr Nadal ... has access to his anti-doping records through WADA's
ADAMS database and is free to make them available," the governing
body said in a statement.
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"The accuracy of any such release would be verified by the ITF.”
Failed drug tests in elite tennis are rare but doping has been in
the spotlight since former women's world number one Maria Sharapova
announced last month she had returned a positive test for banned
substance meldonium.
(Writing by Ian Ransom; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
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