Tennis star Fernando Verdasco suspended for two months for violating anti-doping rules.

Tennis General

Tennis star Fernando Verdasco suspended for two months for violating anti-doping rules.

Former top-10 professional Spanish tennis player Fernando Verdasco has been suspended for two months after testing positive for a medication for ADHD.

Verdasco has accepted the voluntary provisional doping suspension and has said that he was taking methylphenidate as medication prescribed by his doctor to treat ADHD but forgot to renew his therapeutic use exemption for the drug.

Verdasco, who has been granted a new TUE for the medication, will serve a suspension until January 8. The 39-year-old was ranked as high as seventh in the world in 2009 but is now down at 125.