Overview
- An ITIA-announced ruling on March 16 upheld five violations from 2018–2020, including blood doping while active, facilitating another player’s blood doping, advising others on evading tests, and clenbuterol use/possession.
- Matosevic is barred from competing, coaching, working with players, or attending events sanctioned by ITIA members until March 15, 2030, conditional on repaying disqualified prize money.
- The tribunal disqualified his February 2018 results at the Morelos and Indian Wells Challenger events and ordered repayment totaling about $520.
- Investigators identified potential offenses in 2024; Matosevic was charged in May 2025, stopped engaging before a Feb. 9, 2026 hearing he did not attend, and publicly admitted to a blood transfusion in Mexico.
- The panel dismissed one clenbuterol charge predating 2020 for lack of evidence and rejected his public claims that the ITIA process was corrupt, finding the agency acted within its authority.