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Guillermo Coria, a professional tennis player who accused a US company of selling him vitamins tainted with steroids, has agreed to a settlement in the case, his legal team said.
Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. Coria was seeking $10 million in financial damages.
His case against vitamin maker Universal Nutrition of New Brunswick, New Jersey, went to trial this week, but both sides reached a settlement on Wednesday.
The Argentine was suspended from the professional tour in 2001 after testing positive for steroids. He blamed Universal Nutrition for his drug test failure and said it cost him millions of dollars in earnings and sponsorships.
In early 2001, Coria, then 19, began taking multivitamins made by Universal, and in April of that year he provided a urine sample that tested positive for nandrolone, a banned steroid.
The men's professional tour suspended him for two years, but then reduced the ban to seven months after an independent laboratory determined Coria's multivitamin was contaminated with nandrolone and other steroids.
A lawyer for the privately owned vitamin company said in opening court statements that the multivitamins contained an "infinitesimal" amount of steroids.
