The suspension of Wickmayer and X Malilsse for on year seems wrong to me.  If I understand it correctly, the did not provide information on there location from 6 am until 11 pm every day.  It was not that they tested positive for drugs but did not follow the rules so they could be foound to be tested.  One of them may have failed a test.  I think a one year suspension is to long for the violation of not disclosing your location.  I hope they protest and are given a light sentence.

 Sorry for any typos or misspelings, I am not really awake yet.

I agree with you Xiowa.  I am not sure what the specifics are for these cases, but to ask players to give the authorities their locations from 6am to 11pm is not going to prove anything.  The players could lie about it anyway.  It is more like the authorities trying to exercise their power by putting them on a tight leash, something any person would resent, particularly a young one who has just been learning to spread her wings.  I believe Wickmayer is still a teenager, so she might react like one and rebel against authority in this way.  To have done it 3 times in 6 months doesn't sound like a huge violation and I would like to hear the two players' excuses.  Malisse has always been a teen-type rebel and actually wasted his whole career potential as a result, but this type of rule is just asking such players to violate the rule.  A slap on the wrist would have been more appropriate.  A year's suspension is outrageous.

It is very strict - that's what Murray and Nadal were complaining about earlier in the year when they said they found it over intrusive.  But people in all kinds of sports under the WADA umbrella have been suspended in same way for three misses of these notifications in recent years - I can think off the bat of a British runner and two Greek athletes. So there's a consistency in the suspensions, albeit a ruthless one.

Whether it's a good idea, I don't know.

I agree they're both probably feckless types, and that's the likely explanation, although missing three times seems truly feckless to me because presumably, apart from the individual warnings they got,  the WTA and ATP are constantly reminding all players of their obligations in these regards - so if you're having trouble logging on with your password or whatever she says her problem was, she should have known she didn't to tell someone at the WTA or at the local federation to help her. 

Of course, we're awash in stories of various kinds of bad judgment the last few weeks, so that's common too.