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<blockquote data-quote="Hank Scorpio" data-source="post: 7069250" data-attributes="member: 48482">Very good post.There was an excellent website on the subject of doping in tennis.It gave regular quarterly reports into testing numbers and the ratio of urine tests to blood.It seems to be gone in the last month though. There was some pretty libellous stuff in the comments section so I&#039;m guessing it got pulled.I think there has been question marks around Nadal for most of his career. The rumours have always followed him around.As already said Roger&#039;s remarkable return to slam winning form in 17 just doesn&#039;t stack up. Athletes jusy don&#039;t come back like that. The fact Djokovic was injured&nbsp; should be a consideration but he was able to overcome Nadal as well at the time.It may come off as sour grapes to question Djokovic&#039;s achievements but there&#039;s clearly some doping going on imo. For a 35 year old to be as dominant in a sport as he is just doesn&#039;t stack up.The testing numbers in tennis are something like only a quarter of those in cycling with similarish budgets for testing. The relative lack of blood testing shows the system is very open to abuse.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hank Scorpio, post: 7069250, member: 48482"] Very good post. There was an excellent website on the subject of doping in tennis. It gave regular quarterly reports into testing numbers and the ratio of urine tests to blood. It seems to be gone in the last month though. There was some pretty libellous stuff in the comments section so I'm guessing it got pulled. I think there has been question marks around Nadal for most of his career. The rumours have always followed him around. As already said Roger's remarkable return to slam winning form in 17 just doesn't stack up. Athletes jusy don't come back like that. The fact Djokovic was injured should be a consideration but he was able to overcome Nadal as well at the time. It may come off as sour grapes to question Djokovic's achievements but there's clearly some doping going on imo. For a 35 year old to be as dominant in a sport as he is just doesn't stack up. The testing numbers in tennis are something like only a quarter of those in cycling with similarish budgets for testing. The relative lack of blood testing shows the system is very open to abuse. [/QUOTE]

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