The World's number 5 ranked
tennis star in March warned that he won't tolerate any more attacks on
his integrity as a sportsman and has now launched a defamation suit
against Roselyne Bachelot who served as French Health minister between
2007 and 2010.
Speaking on Canal+,
Bachelot accused Nadal of taking seven months out of tennis between 2012
and 2013 because he had taken drugs.
"We know that the famous
injury which kept Nadal out for seven months is without any doubt
because he tested positive," Bachelot said. "When you see a tennis
player out of action for a long time, it's usually because they've
tested positive."
On Monday
the 14-time grand slam winner released a statement announcing the
filing of a case against her, for her comments made on French television
in March.
"Through this case, I intend not
only to defend my integrity and my image as an athlete, but also the
values I have defended all my career," Nadal said in his press
statement.
"I also wish to avoid any public
figure from making insulting or false allegations against an athlete
using the media, without any evidence or foundation, and to go
unpunished."
"I am going to sue her, and I am going to sue
everyone who is going to comment something similar in future, because I
am tired of that," .
"I let it go a few times in the past. No more."
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