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12/15/09 5:39 AM | Johan Lindahl
Xavier Malisse can now start dreaming of a possible Australian Open wild card after a Belgian court threw him a legal lifeline in the struggle with draconian anti-doping requirements in tennis.
Lawyers for the world No. 94, a 2002 Wimbledon semifinalist who has only once passed the second round in Melbourne over the past decade, hope they have secured the future for Malisse as well as compatriot and US Open women's semifinalist Yanina Wickmayer.
The two are now free to play, a Belgian court decided, suspending one-year bans handed down to the players by a Flemish tribunal last month.
Malisse and his compatriot were sanctioned for violating the controversial "whereabouts" rule under which players must notify anti-doping czars of their location for every day of the year in case testers wish to show up unexpectedly.
Malisse, 29, said his career would effectively be over if he were suspended.
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