Knock knock, are you there? It's drug tester! Open up!

More and more players are complaining about the new antidoping rules. The ideas of controlling players every day seems to be ridiculous. Players have to be at home when drug testers arrive, otherwise it may cause anti-doping violation.

The first one to oppose was current world nr 1, Rafael Nadal:

"It is intolerable harassment. To have to send a message or be concerned all day long if there is a last-minute change seems to me be totally excessive."

Just few days later another player complained. In his interview Andy Murray said:

"These new rules are so draconian that it makes it almost impossible to live a normal life. I got a visit at 7 a.m one morning at my home right after I had travelled home from Australia. I woke up not really knowing where I was and suffering badly from jet lag. It seemed ridiculous to me as I’d been tested just four days earlier, straight after the match I had lost in the Australian Open.
The official who came to my home wanted me to produce identification to prove who I was. He insisted on watching me provide a sample, literally with my trousers round my ankles, and then insisted that I wrote down my own address, even though he was at my private home at 7 a.m."

However, there is one player who doesn't object. It is former nr 1, Roger Federer. He may hate Hawk Eye, but he actually likes more strict anti- doping controls.

"It's a tough system, no doubt. It's a significant change to what we were used to before, so I think it takes some time getting used to it.
But at the same time, I feel like this is how you're going to catch them, right? You're not going to catch them ringing them up and saying, Look, I would like to test you maybe in two days... It's an hour a day. I know it's a pain, but I would like it to be a clean sport, and that's why I'm okay with it."

Yeah, Roger, like always you have different opinion. No surprise.

~shaw