"I am innocent and I have never talked to judges in London," Sesil Karatantcheva told local Gong radio asked to comment French press reports she had produced a positive doping test.

The 16-aged hopeful of Bulgarian tennis expressed her shock and disappointment with "the false reports of the French".

She suggested the news of having proven positive in banned steroid neandrolone was a kind of interpretation by the French L'Equipe. "The Frenchmen have never liked me," she added.

She refused also the reports claiming she had talked to an ITF judge-panel in London last week to give explanation.

The news of Karatantcheva - Roland-Garros junior winner in 2004 - has gone round the globe hitting all the European headlines. Seen as a promising star in tennis, world media have refrained from commenting just reproducing the news circulated by French newspaper L'Equipe.

To impose a sanction, it is obligatory first to prove that the neandrolone was used intentionally, Bulgarian news agency noted.

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