Tennis

AP Interview: Officials drop Agassi drug inquiries

Published Mar. 17, 2010 5:25 p.m. ET

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Tennis officials have closed the book on Andre Agassi's drug revelations.

International Tennis Federation president Francesco Ricci Bitti tells The Associated Press that despite appeals from the World Anti-Doping Agency, the statute of limitations in the case expired long ago and no retroactive punishment is possible.

In Agassi's recently published autobiography, ``Open,'' he wrote that he ingested crystal meth in 1997 and then lied to the ATP to avoid a suspension after failing a doping test.

Ricci Bitti says that ``the ATP is the only entity that could have shed light on what happened, but it's too late.''

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