“When someone rang my door late at night without properly identifying themselves or following protocol — I reacted as a person who felt scared. In that moment, it was about feeling safe, not about avoiding anything.

“Experts confirmed I suffered an Acute Stress Reaction (F43.O) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (F41.1). In that moment, fear clouded my judgment and I just couldn’t process the situation rationally. After what happened to Petra (Kvitová, the fellow Czech Wimbledon champion who was stabbed in her own home 10 years ago), we don’t take strangers at our door lightly.”

During Monday’s briefing, Sapstead said that a single female doping control officer attended Vondroušová’s property.

“The player signed the refusal form outside. She left her apartment to walk her dog and made it clear to the doping control officer that she was refusing a test. The doping control officer asked her to sign the form to indicate as much.

“We ask our doping control officers to be as clear as possible when they’re engaging with players. It’s not for them to tell the player where a sanction may lay or (what could happen) if they choose to refuse. But what we do say is, please make it very clear that there are consequences, some significant consequences, if that individual refuses.

“So, yes, that was made very clear to the player. It was very clear that the player did not wish to engage with the process.”

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7382616/2026/06/22/marketa-vondrousova-suspended-doping-stress-reaction-tennis/

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