LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — On the day Andy Roddick announced his retirement from tennis, he helped Bulgarian player Dimitar Kutrovsky receive a reduced ban in a doping case.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport has published a ruling in Kutrovsky’s appeal that reduced his two-year ban to 15 months.
CAS says Roddick “testified about Kutrovsky’s character” by telephone with the Aug. 30 appeal hearing held in New York.
Roddick also called a news conference at Flushing Meadows that day, his 30th birthday, to say that the U.S. Open was his final tournament.