Edmund Willison 3：But beyond just giving players the opportunity to avoid detection, the ABP expert @RobinParisotto1, who pioneered the first test for EPO, explained that the ITF is providing players with an ideal window to blood dope before play begins.

Edmund Willison4： And the other major problem…The ITF took 2 single blood samples from the entire tour, men and women, in-competition in 2021, meaning they effectively did not monitor blood doping, using the ABP, at grand slams all year. Again one of the most gruelling endurance events.

Edmund Willison5： If they had done so, they may have seen some interesting things.During the Tour de France, because the event is so demanding, you would expect to see an athlete’s blood values, such as hemoglobin, decrease over the course of the Tour

Edmund Willison 6：As an athlete becomes more fatigued, and struggles to recover from previous efforts, the oxygen carrying capacity of their blood decreases. A blood transfusion is perfect for boosting an athlete's endurance and recovery mid-event.

Edmund Willison 7：For example, in the case of Lance Armstrong, at the 2009 Tour de France, his hemoglobin actually increased which experts argued was indicative of him undergoing a transfusion His reticulocyte levels were also supressed.Remember, Blood Transfusion = reticulocytes

Edmund Willison8：The ITF is not monitoring, using the ABP, whether any tennis players’ blood values act similarly during grand slams. Regular blood samples are not included in an athlete's ABP.A mid-tournament blood transfusion would be ideal going into the second week of a slam.

Edmund Willison9 :But here one may say, well are tennis players really undergoing blood transfusions?Well in 2018, an swimmer, who isn’t remotely as successful as the world’s top tennis players underwent a blood transfusion with the help of his mother!

Edmund Willison 11:And then further, in a 2013 anonymised study, 76% of male and 47% of female players, at ITF events, said there was doping in tennis.And remember these are socially undesirable answers, so you’d expect the percentage to be higher if every player had to tell the truth.

Edmund Willison 12 :So I hope that explains a little the significance of the ITF warning players when they must submit to ABP testing.And let's remember again that the ITF has never caught a player for blood doping with this ABP programme or by testing directly for EPO.

监管越来越松，甚至检查前还通知ITF和ATP都在一步步胡来，下个月还要开始场内指导网球一直标榜自己独自上场的魅力也将成为历史

正义也许会迟到，但绝不会缺席，会有真相大白的一天