Wickmayer said anti-doping officials corresponded with registered mail to her home in Belgium where she lives with her father, who is also her coach.

The two travel together several months of the year, meaning registered mail remains unopened. Wickmayer expressed surprise that no one phoned or e-mailed her when the mail went unanswered.

Under WADA’s “whereabouts” rule, elite athletes must make themselves available for out-of-competition testing for one hour a day, 365 days a year. They must give three months’ notice of where and when they will be available so they can be tested.

The data is kept on a Web site where it can be changed. If athletes miss three out-of-competition tests or fail three times to register where they will be for anti-doping tests, they risk sanctions.

As she circled the globe, Wickmayer—whose career earnings to date total less than $1 million—said she received no guidance from tennis or anti-doping authorities on how to file her whereabouts data.

“They should inform us better on how this system works,” she said.


Update 11/14/09

Man as the days go by..the more and more I dig up:
 

Wickmayer said she spent November and December of 2008 training in Switzerland, traveled to Australia in January and consequently was not at home in Belgium when certified letters containing the whereabouts information were sent to her house.

After hearing other players discuss new doping rules, Wickmayer said she googled the email address for the Flemish Anti-doping agency and sent them an email on February 18, 2009 requesting information.

Authorities replied the next day, however Wickmayer said the reply did not inform her she already missed one update. Wickmayer suggested authorities, who would have received the returned certified letters she never signed for, failed to communicate her status.

"On February 19, 2009, I received an email back, which included a login and did not include any information about the one failed update I had already missed, without
knowing that this system even exists, even though all the letters that I had to sign for upon receipt and were sent back to the Flemish Anti-Doping Agency, meaning that they did know that I never received them," Wickmayer said.

During as seven-week stint playing and training in the United States, Wickmayer said she tried to login to the system but the login she was given by authorities did not work. She said she sent another email to authorities in April informing them the login did not give her access to the system.

"After the weekend, their reply to me was simply that there was a problem with my login and that they have reset this so I can log in with a new login into the system," Wickmayer said. "There was no indication in this email that I now had already had two failures to update behind my name, even though I had not even logged into the system once. Following their reply to me and using the new login information, I mistakenly completed the online whereabouts details wrong, as I did not know that you could not select the option ‘competition’ and instead had to select the option “permanent residence”, which I had no idea about."

Wickmayer claims it wasn’t until June when she phoned the VDT that she was given information on how to complete the online whereabouts requirements completely, but by that point she had already missed her third update though she claims authorities never informed her.

"This conversation took place after my 3rd missed update had already happened, even though I had not received any word about this,” Wickmayer said. "From that day on, my WADA (information) has always been updated correctly and I have been tested out of competition at home."