With the tennis world already rocked in 2024 by failed doping tests of two of its biggest stars, Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek, another Grand Slam champion has been implicated with doping charges. Australia’s Max Purcell, the world no. 12 doubles player who won men’s doubles titles at Wimbledon in 2022 and the US Open last year, has taken a voluntary provisional suspension under the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme after admitting to a breach of rules, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) revealed on Monday. The charge against Purcell does not relate to the use of a prohibited substance but instead to the use of a “prohibited method”. He has requested to come into provisional suspension on December 10, which came into effect on December 12. “Time served under provisional suspension will be credited against any future sanction,” the ITIA said in a statement on their website, without divulging further details. The ITIA is an independent organisation that has been founded by the governing bodies of tennis to oversee doping violations. It has come under fire …