The Robert Kendrick Doping Scandal: Who is Really Responsible?

What are the facts behind the suspension of American journeyman Robert Kendrick?

By the time Tennisplayer subscribers read this, American journeyman player Robert Kendrick may have rallied just about every single U.S. male player to his side in his attempt to get his 12-month ban for doping reduced to three months. What are the facts regarding the most recent bizarre twist in saga of allegedly performance enhancing substances, the players, and the doping authorities?

The 31-year-old American tested positive for the banned substance known as methylhexanamine (MHA) at the French Open. Kendrick claims he took a capsule called Zija XM3 to assist with jetlag, without knowing that it contained a banned substance.

He had been flying back and forth to Florida because his fiancée was pregnant and knew he would be unable to get back to Paris early enough to beat jet lag naturally (he arrived on Friday and was scheduled to play on Sunday). A friend of his, he claimed, recommended the pill, saying it contained no banned substances.

He took it when he arrived and after he lost on Sunday, he went to his anti-doping test and failed it. Before he was tested he had to fill out…