Wimbledon champion and British tennis star Andy Murray criticized Croatian Marin Cilic and Serbian Viktor Troicki on Friday and labeled them as "unprofessional" after the two tennis players were banned for the use of illegal substance and failure to submit blood sample, respectively.
Troicki is banned for 12 months after he failed to provide a blood sample right away during the Monte Carlo Masters last April. He claimed he was too ill to give a blood sample on demand. On the other hand, Cilic had just returned from a four-month suspension after he was found guilty of using the banned stimulant nikethamide at the Munich Open in May.
"Whether either player was intentionally cheating or not -- we don't know that, and I don't think either of them are like that -- but both of them were unprofessional," Murray told the BBC as reported by Yahoo! Sports. He added: "I personally would never go and buy something over the counter in a pharmacy -- it's just unprofessional."
Murray said that in the case of Troicki, the Serbian should have just followed the rules. "When we're asked to go and give a drugs test, we must do that," he reasoned.
The British champion also expressed support to the drug testing system saying that it would go a long way towards helping the sport. "I'm happy that the drug testing is going in the right direction: they're starting to increase it, they're doing more blood testing and we've got the biological passports in place."
One of Murray's rivals, 17-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer had earlier called for more drug testing in tennis. He was quoted as saying that: "I just feel like we're not getting maybe tested enough."
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