Sabalenka on doping: “I’m very careful about who I associate with or who I touch”
Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, number one in the WTA ranking, said she is "excited" to return to Madrid to a tournament where she has always felt "comfortable" and spoke, on a personal level, about the doping cases that have emerged in recent months within the circuit and that make her "afraid" and extreme concern to the point of only drinking and eating "things" that she has been able to "control to the maximum".Sabalenka is in Madrid to compete in a tournament she has won twice, in 2021 and 2023, and in which last year she was a finalist and lost the champion's trophy to Poland's Iga Swiatek. "I'm very excited to be here. Madrid is a tournament where I have always felt very comfortable. I have tried not to think about last year's final, but being here it is inevitable to […]