Twenty-time Grand Slam winner Roger Federer spoke about the doping case of the world’s first racket Jannik the fisherman and said he had confidence in the Italian athlete’s innocence.
Earlier, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) announced that world number one Sinner had tested positive for doping twice in March. The athlete avoided disqualification because he proved that the banned substance, clostebol, had entered his system accidentally. Sinner was stripped of ranking points and prize money earned at the tournament, where he tested positive for doping.
Sinner said the substance entered his body through “contamination” by a member of his team who applied an over-the-counter spray containing clostebol to his skin to treat a minor injury. The team member applied the spray between March 5 and 13, a period during which the tennis player received daily massages, leading to “contamination” that Sinner was unaware of.
“This is not the kind of news we want to see in our sport, whether he did something or not.” It’s just noise we don’t need.
I understand that it is a difficult situation. It is a nightmare for every athlete and every team to deal with such accusations and problems, because we fill out these forms every day. And this feeling stays with you. Every morning when you wake up, you think: “Someone is standing in front of the door and wants to watch me?” So it is really difficult.
“I understand the frustration of people who wonder if he was treated the same as everyone else. And I think that’s what it comes down to. I think we’re all pretty sure Yannick didn’t do anything, but the inconsistency that he didn’t have to sit there until they were 100% sure what was going on is the question that needs to be answered. But listen, it is what it is, and we have to trust the process, and we have to trust everyone involved,” Federer was quoted as saying by Today.
The day before, Sinner had beaten American Tommy Paul in the fourth round of the US Open. In the quarter-finals of the US Open, the Italian’s opponent will be Russian Daniil Medvedev.
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