American Tennis Player Odesnik Caught Smuggling HGH

Didn’t see that coming. What a STAIN on American tennis. How embarrassing for us. He’s an idiot for even trying it.

March 26th, 2010 at 12:22 pm

He used to brag about how he was the best American on clay.

March 26th, 2010 at 12:23 pm

You guys realize he’s not the only one who uses PEDS, he just got caught in a dumb way.

March 26th, 2010 at 12:31 pm

The funniest part of all this is that even using HGH, he’s still ranked no higher than #77 in the world :)

So you could make a case by asking how much does it really help you to win?

March 26th, 2010 at 12:48 pm

He should be banned.

March 26th, 2010 at 12:48 pm

http://tennishasasteroidproblem.blogspot.com/

March 26th, 2010 at 12:49 pm

really sad to read about this. How very disappointing that he could think he could even get away with it. Wonder what the other American players say about this? – naughty boy!

March 26th, 2010 at 12:51 pm

He’s going to claim he got the vials from kissing a girl at a party.

(I agree with Voicemale1. For HGH being classified as a PED, it doesn’t seem to be helping his results very much.)

Amazed that anyone would use Steroids and the like. Didn’t Lyle Alzado teach us anything?

March 26th, 2010 at 1:04 pm

Unfortunately, I think a lot of players are using performance enhancing drugs, they’re just not getting caught with them.

Pretty sure Rafa and Serena, have both used them before. No other explanation as to how Nadal could have been so ripped at 18 or 19 years old.

March 26th, 2010 at 1:53 pm

Ben Pronin Says:
http://tennishasasteroidproblem.blogspot.com/

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This blog is a waste of time. It’s filled with nothing more than crackpot kook conspiracy theories. The author of this blog engenders the wholly ridiculous and impossible premise by his accusations: he expects the accused to prove the wildly absurd, unsubstantiated and conjectured claims of the accuser are untrue. His sensationalistic and tabloid-esque blog is designed to do nothing more than drive traffic to the site so he can raise banner ad revenues. He’s an idiot.

And this HGH story on Odesnik he trumpets on his blog is a case in point this blog’s author has no clue what he’s talking about. He rails incessantly about all the TOP players allegedly being on some kind of PED which leads them to be at the top (his bathroom break suspicions posting on his own site should prove to everyone once and for all he’s deranged). Yet here’s a guy trying to in fact smuggle into the USA for the exact purpose of using it, yet his performance hasn’t exactly sent him directly into the Top 10 because of it! Odesnik’s career is proof that even if you use such things it guarantees you absolutely nothing.

March 26th, 2010 at 4:33 pm

Even though none of us wants to believe that there are doping cases in tennis every once and a while we find out one. Shame..

March 26th, 2010 at 5:47 pm

Isn’t HGH being manufactured by companies that sell natural supplements?

March 26th, 2010 at 11:16 pm

Voicemale1: “Odesnik’s career is proof that even if you use such things it guarantees you absolutely nothing.”

Of course it guarantees you absolutely nothing, that is dead obvious. The real question is, why does it guarantee you nothing?
1) because a tennis player taking drugs does not play better than one not taking drugs,
2) because all the rest of the top 100 take drugs too.

Make your pick!

March 27th, 2010 at 2:02 am

This Odesnik case is bad news! The decision to dope is a big one and I would think it did not come to Odesnik on his own, That means some pressure it out there which means more than Odesnik are using.

Bad, bad stuff. I fear what it means for tennis.

March 27th, 2010 at 11:34 am

Sean’s link was no fun to read. Clearly Guillermo Canas doped and this Odesnik guy is stupid. Ben Pronin’s statement that there is more doping out there is no fun to read either.

I guess the players really are being stupid.

March 27th, 2010 at 11:38 am

Voicemale1, the blog may be sometimes over-the-top, I sometimes think the author goes too far in his suspicions, but it’s meant to be like this. It just wants to wake people up, and it had some good success recently, as far as I know it was this blog who really broke up the story about the ITF 2009 statistics. Steve Tignor followed up, Bonnie Cramer at ESPN. Go read their articles, they’re no crackpots, yet they are disturbed.

And for Odesnik, please don’t rehash this super-old trope. Of course doping won’t turn a #200 into a #5. Talent, with or without doping, plays a role. However doping CAN make a #200 into a #100. It CAN make a #50 into a #40. And for lowly-ranked players, it can mean the world. There’s a reason why challenger tournaments are called the “jungle”.

March 27th, 2010 at 5:33 pm

From one player (via Tennis.com)

“A fellow player, who wished to remain anonymous, told TENNIS.com that the revelation was less than shocking.

“I’m not surprised about Wayne,” he said. “We all had suspicions about three to four years ago. His upper body got huge at one point and his legs stayed skinny. He had zits all over his back. But it’s never worth all that risk.”

March 27th, 2010 at 9:30 pm

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