CAS sets date for Wickmayer, Malisse appeals

Belgian tennis players Yanina Wickmayer and Xavier Malisse will have their cases heard at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in May to decide if they broke anti-doping rules.

CAS says on May 30 it will hear the appeals involving the players, the World Anti-Doping Agency, the Flemish Tennis Federation and the Flemish Doping Tribunal.

Wickmayer and Malisse are challenging one-year bans imposed in 2009 after the tribunal ruled they failed to give details of their whereabouts for drug testing.

A second Belgian court granted injunctions allowing them to keep playing.

The 22-year-old Wickmayer is now ranked No. 33. The 31-year-old Malisse is 75th.