The Czech tennis school has a well-deserved tradition and fame. Among the women, leading the style of exquisite technique, solid fundamentals and vision of aggressive play, of winning shots and going to the net as often as possible, the historic Martina Navratilova.
But they passed later Jana Novotna or Hana Mandlikova, they continue to be the best Barbora Krejcikova, Marketa Vondrousova or Karolina Muchovawhenever injuries allow it. The Fruhvirtova sisters, Brenda and Linda, are among those promising to establish themselves among the professionals.
From this inexhaustible engine of talent comes this 2022 junior Roland Garros semi-finalist, aged 16. In another he reached the Wimbledon final, leaving the road Alina Korneevathe amazing Russian tennis player who lived in the Rafa Nadal Academy.
Nikola Bartunkova worked with her compatriots Brenda Fruhvirtova and Sara Bejlek to secure another title for the Czech Republic in the junior Billie Jean King Cup.
Among the wonderful women of a promising generation, including Slovakian Renata Jamrichova or his executioner at Wimbledon, the American Clervie Ngounoue, a Bartunkova who immediately wanted to compete with professionals.
He entered the demanding ITF circuit, where he already has titles, where he began to rise in 2024. Until he received the news that no athlete wants to hear: positive in the anti-doping test. Through trimetazidine, a hormonal and metabolic modulator.
On February 28 he tested positive, on April 16 a suspension began that lasted until this week. He now has a free way to play, because the penalty is less because he accepted the 6-month ban, without trying to appeal, and especially because the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) considered his involuntariness proven by -take a supplement contaminated with a prohibited substance.
“The ITIA accepted that the positive test results for trimetazidine were caused by contamination from a contaminated supplement, that the violation was unintentional and that the player was not grossly culpable or negligent.”
Source: La Verdad
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