Russian star Sharapova was
handed a two-year doping ban on Wednesday after testing positive for the
banned medication meldonium at January's Australian Open.
The
29-year-old admitted in March that she simply hadn't realised
meldonium, which was added to the World Antio-Doping Agency's banned
substance list in January, was no longer permitted - she had been
taking the medication for 10 years.
"I only heard the headlines, I
didn't quite get into all the details but to me it's about zero
tolerance," said Federer after his 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 victory over Taylor
Fritz at the Stuttgart Open on Thursday.
"It
doesn't matter if they did it on purpose or not -- I don't really see
the difference. You need to know what goes into your body, you have to
be 100% sure of what's going on, if you're not, you're gong to be
damned.
"Of course she's got the right to fight the case, like everybody else as well. I'm just for zero tolerance.
"I stay by my word that we
should be saving blood samples for 10, 15, 20 years to come, so you have
to scare away the people who think they could cheat.
"You have to scare them so they will not do it, so they could retroactively also be banned, and take away titles and so forth."
Date: 10 June 2016, Source: AFP
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