The tennis course has begun impeccably for number one in the world. The Italian Jannik Sinner spoiled in the first Grand Slam of the season, the Australian Open, its incontestable domain in the male circuit revalidating the title. However, so far beyond sports things could twist for the number one in the world.
In an interview for the newspaper ‘La Stampa’the director of Communication of the World Anti -Doping Agency (AMA), James Fitzgerald, has made it clear that the case of alleged doping that has Italian as the protagonist is not even closed.
On April 16 and 17, an audience behind closed doors in the Court of Sports Arbitration (TAS) must resolve and put an end to the case, which exploded after knowing a positive double of SINNER by Clostebol, an anabolic steroid, in the last Indian Wells 1,000 masters.
In August 2024 and after a process that was taken in the most absolute secret, the International Agency for Tennis Integrity (ITIA) decided to acquit the Italian, imposing only the punishment of losing the money and the points achieved in that tournament.
When the positive Sinner was made public alleged involuntary pollution, an explanation that the Ita’s investigation supported. The Italian argued that the Clostebol reached his body because his physiotherapist was being applied on a finger, due to a wound, a product that contained it.
In fact, the world number one has always declared himself innocentand even fired his physical trainer (Umberto Ferrara) and his physiotherapist (Giacomo Naldi). A feeling that many of their companions of both the male and female circuit have not shared. As the always controversial Nick Kyrgios, who has not lost any occasion to criticize the Italian and the resolution of the case of alleged doping.
“If you really believe that was how the substance entered his body …”, said the Australian, questioning Sinner’s version. «He failed in two anti -doping test carried out at different times. It was not one after the other, they were performed at different times. If he did nothing wrong, why were the economic award and ATP points withdraw? Obviously, they found something wrong with that.
“The conclusion is not correct”
A posture that of Kyrgios that shares the AMA, which made it public through its communication director. «We believe that the conclusion that there was no guilt or negligence is not correct according to current rules and request a period of suspension between one and two years ».
A hard punishment to which, according to Fitzgerald, does not add the cancellation of any results “except those already imposed in the first instance.”
Currently the Italian tennis player prepares to participate in the ATP 500 of Doha, where he will reappear after his overwhelming victory in Melbourne, while hanging Damocles’ sword on his head. A suspension could interrupt his career at a peak and would put the world male tennis up.
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