Wickmayer says she is no drugs cheat

Rising tennis star Yanina Wickmayer says she isn\'t a drugs cheat and blames Belgian doping authorities for the breach of anti-doping regulations, which caused her to be banned for a year.



A Belgian court and the International Tennis Federation have since suspended the bans imposed on Wickmayer and compatriot Xavier Malisse in November for breaches of the World Anti-Doping Agency\'s (WADA) whereabouts rule.



The 20-year-old Wickmayer will return to the court as a wild card in next week\'s ASB Classic in Auckland, a warm-up to January\'s Australian Open.



At a news conference today, Wickmayer said she was regularly drug tested during the period she reportedly failed to inform her national anti-doping agency of her whereabouts.



Wickmayer rose from 71 to 16 on world rankings during 2009. As a top-50 player she came under WADA\'s whereabouts rule which requires players to notify their whereabouts 365 days a year for out-of-competition testing.