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It was determined her level of fault was "at the lowest end of the range for no significant fault or negligence," the ITIA said.

Swiatek has only eight days remaining on the punishment, after she was provisionally suspended from Sept. 12 to Oct. 4 and missed three tournaments. The remaining suspension will be completed while there is no competition, and Swiatek will be cleared to return to play as of Monday.

She had said in September that she was missing the Korea Open, China Open and Wuhan Open for personal reasons.

“I sit and try to understand but it is really impossible for me to understand something like this," Halep posted Friday on her Instagram account. “I sit and wonder, ‘Why such a big difference in treatment and judgment?’

"I can’t find, and I don’t think there can be, a logical answer. It can only be bad will on the part of ITIA, the organisation that did absolutely everything to destroy me despite the evidence."

Note, this is where Maria Sharapova’s defense went off the rails as well. If meldonium were innocuously being used to address her diabetes, why withhold listing it on forms? Halep, too, omitted the banned substance from her forms. By Halep’s own admission, she was trying a new supplement. She and her team had concerns sufficiently serious that colleagues were asked to double-check and source the ingredients. The supplements were so “boutique” that they were unavailable for over-the-counter purchase, instead ordered from Canada. … And, weeks later, Halep didn’t mention this new substance on forms, or when asked, even after her positive test? Imagine: You were wrongfully accused of taking a banned substance; wouldn’t you empty the bucket offering every possible substance you ingested, hoping one might explain the mishap? Why withhold anything?

The Salt Lake City lab confirms the presence of trimetazidine in both the open and sealed melatonin containers. They were able to “rule out potential manipulation” and said that the amount of trimetazidine in the supplement “was consistent with the estimated concentrations of TMZ found in the Player’s urine sample, based on the Player’s asserted ingestion.”