I agree Moxie, when they find bad apples, out with them in the open. This way all kinds of rumors and stupid innuendos start, which is also not good for the sport.
The Cilic controversy is a good example, I think, of lack of transparency inspiring no confidence in the institution. He failed a drug test, but the ITF didn't make it public. When it came out, (in this day and age, I'm not sure how much they think they can keep under wraps,) we have confirmation that a silent ban exists, AND, that the ITF is dodgy. So when they decide to believe his story that he took an over-the-counter supplement, not knowing that it had some ephedrine-ish thing in it, or whatever, and take him off the ban: they look wimpy, and he looks suspicious. So when he won the USO some 8 months later, it felt tainted to a lot of people. And I'm not saying that he wasn't plausibly innocent. I'm saying that, the way the ITF went about it made him seem guilty, and them look stupid - at best - and conspiratorial, at worst. Had they given it full daylight from the beginning, and we'd all have known that he was given a suspension until this supplement was checked out, that would have helped. And when they deemed it to be an innocent mistake, we might have taken it as such. The way they did handle it, however, left a bad taste in everyone's mouth. I'm not impugning Cilic, I'm just using this case as an example. I'm impugning the ITF, and I think they have a lot to learn about transparency, and their PR problems.
