LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) Serbian tennis player Victor Troicki will appear at sport's highest court next week to challenge his 18-month ban for skipping a doping test.
Troicki said Tuesday he is "confident" ahead of his appeal hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Oct. 9.
"I will attend in person for sure. I am fighting for the truth and I will do it as hard as I can," the 2010 Davis Cup winner said in an interview supplied by his management team.
The International Tennis Federation banned the 27-year-old Troicki until Jan. 24, 2015 because he refused to provide a blood sample, after giving a urine sample, at the Monte Carlo Masters in April.
An ITF tribunal dismissed Troicki's claim that an anti-doping officer at the tournament advised him to write to the governing body citing illness as a reason for not giving the second sample.