Belgian tennis players Yanina Wickmayer and Xavier Malisse, who both fell foul of anti-doping regulations, appealed against their one-year bans to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Wednesday.
"Yanina Wickmayer and Xavier Malisse have filed appeals at CAS against decisions taken by the Vlaams Doping Tribunal of Gand, Belgium, in which they were found to have committed an anti-doping rule violation," a CAS statement said.wickmayer, a U.S. Open semi-finalist this year, was suspended after breaking the controversial whereabouts rule -- that requires players to notify their country's doping agency where they can be reached on a daily basis -- three times.
US Open semi-finalist Wickmayer received the suspension earlier this month from a Flemish anti-doping tribunal after failing three times to report her whereabouts for drug testing.
Malisse twice failed to report his whereabouts and also missed a test when he was unavailable for testing at an address he had provided.
Malisse and compatriot Yanina Wickmayer, the US Open semi-finalist, were both suspended by the Flemish Doping Tribunal (VDT) for failing to comply with the "whereabouts" rule, which ensures that they are available for out-of competition testing.
"In their appeals to the CAS, the athletes request the annulment of the decisions taken by the Flemish Doping Tribunal," the CAS said in a statement. The 29-year-old said earlier this month that the suspension would probably mean the end of his career
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