Hingis wants to clear name

Martina Hingis, who stormed the world at a young age with her tennis skills, is now fighting a legal battle to clear her name following a positive test for cocaine.

Hingis, while announcing her retirement, said, she did "not want to have a fight with anti-doping authorities."

From Telegraph.co.uk:

Anti-doping officials are astonished by Hingis's decision to go public with the cocaine charge, which arose from a urine sample she gave at this year's Wimbledon, because she is in the middle of a legal process that will culminate in a personal disciplinary hearing by an independent panel in the near future.

Under the rules of the World Anti-Doping Code, any athlete charged with a drugs offence is guaranteed anonymity until he or she is found guilty. Were she to be cleared by the disciplinary panel, her involvement in a doping case would never be known and her reputation would remain intact.

Hingis has hired the London-based lawyer who helped former British athlete Diane Modahl overturn a four-year drugs ban.