Greg Rusedski is expecting to wait at least another week before hearing whether he has been cleared of a doping offence after testing positive for the banned steroid nandrolone last July, his agent has said.
The Briton, who faces a ban of up to two years if found guilty, attended a closed-door hearing in Montreal on February 9. A three-man panel appointed by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) was expected to take up to nine days to deliver its verdict, but that deadline passed more than a week ago.
"We heard yesterday that it (the verdict) might be next week or even the week thereafter," Rusedski's agent Sharon Park told Reuters.
When he returned from the hearing, Rusedski said he was "cautiously optimistic" about the outcome. "I think things went fairly well but we'll have to wait and see," he said at London's Heathrow airport on February 10.
The British number two and 1997 U.S. Open runner-up has since kept a low profile. Rusedski had been expected to compete at last week's World Indoor Tournament in Rotterdam but pulled out for personal reasons.
Seven players on the ATP tour were exonerated after an independent inquiry ruled last year that they had taken contaminated electrolite supplements handed out by ATP trainers. The ATP stopped its staff handing out the supplements in May 2003.