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Sports Briefing | Tennis: Nadal Wants Files Public

Rafael Nadal wrote to the president of the International Tennis Federation, David Haggerty, on Monday and asked for his drug test results and blood profile records to be made public. “It can’t be free anymore in our tennis world to speak and to accuse without evidence,” Nadal wrote in the letter, obtained by The Associated Press. Nadal, who has filed suit against a former French government minister who suggested he had doped, also encouraged the I.T.F. “to start filing lawsuits if there is any misinformation spread by anyone.”

u25a0 The singles champions at Wimbledon this year will each receive nearly $3 million, with the tournament increasing its overall prize money by 5 percent, to about $40 million.