ITF suspends Gasquet

LONDON: France's Richard Gasquet has been provisionally suspended from tennis after testing positive for cocaine, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) said yesterday.

"He's under investigation with respect to ITF's anti-doping programme. Under WADA terms, once B sample confirms A sample, we have to provisionally suspend him," Stuart Miller, the ITF's head of Science and Technical, told Reuters.

"From the point of B sample being known to the end of hearing, it should be no longer than 60 days."