The world number one, the Italian Jannik Sinner, has ended up accepting a three -month suspension due to the clostebol doping positive that was detected in the analyzes to which he submitted in March of last year.
The brand new champion of the Australian Open, which already accumulates three Grand Slam titles in its history, will not play any competition between February 9 and May 4. That is, the San Cándido tennis player will be out of the tracks in the one known as Sunshine Double, the Indian Wells and Miami Masters, and also the 1000 Masters of Montecarlos and Madrid. He will return in his country, in Rome, like these last two, on land. Prior to Roland Garros.
When the Italian returns to the competition, he will continue as number one in the world. The absence of these tournaments will not affect you. It will not cost more than 1600 points. Neither Alexander Zverev or Carlos Alcaraz can hunt him in the ATP ranking.
Sinner arrives at an agreement with the World Anti -Doping Agency, which last September had resorted to the decision before the TAS (court of sports arbitration) and will be ninety days without playing. He could have requested one or two years of suspension as has happened in other cases. But he accepted “the athlete’s explanation about the cause of the infraction and assumes that Sinner had no intention of cheating because the substance detected did not provide any benefit to improve its performance.”
“He was not aware of his intake and it was a negligence of his surroundings.”
SINNER, who will be able to train again since April 13, manages to avoid the hearing before the sports arbitration court planned for April and in which the Ama intended to request a greater suspension. The trial, evidently, is canceled.
The Ama, which has not requested the cancellation of any result achieved by the player at this time, finally accepts the player’s explanations and arguments even though the precedents for the consumption and detection of this substance in anti -doping controls had meant sanctions of Up to four years.
Sinner’s defense argued in his day that the substance was in his body because the physiotherapist treated him with a product that contained it, involuntarily, although the regulations underline that the athlete is also responsible for what his surroundings do.
The criticisms of the initial resolution of the International Integrity Agency in Tennis (ITIA), which decided only to sanction economically and with the points obtained in Indian Wells, where the positive number one was detected, to the number one in the world, were frequent. Especially for the difference in treatment and consideration of an elite player with respect to other athletes with less impact.
“Different rules for different players,” summarized fellow professionals such as the Australian Nick Kyrgios, the most critical, or Canadian Denis Shapovalov who indicated that he could not imagine “what the other players who have been sanctioned by contaminated substances feel.” Or the Frenchman Lucas Pouille: “Maybe they should stop taking us by idiots.”
Silence in other cases was another support of the world number one.
Kyrgios, now, has been the first to criticize the new resolution of the WADA and the agreement reached with the player. “A sad day for tennis.”
“Then, the Ama came out and said it would be a sanction of one or two years. Obviously, the Sinner team did everything possible to move forward and accept a three -month sanction, without losing titles or metallic awards. Guilty or not? A sad day for tennis. Justice in tennis does not exist, ”says Kyrgios on social networks.
The final resolution of the SINNER case dusts the one that months ago affected that of the Polish IGA Swiatek, now number two in the world but for a long time dominating the female tennis circuit. The winner of five Grand Slam titles was suspended just one month after positive on August 12 by the trimetazidine substance. As the player argued, the concentration of the substance was minimal and a heart medication that she consumed to alleviate sleep problems and overcome the travel time for travel. Ita resolved “absence of guilt or significant negligence.” The player reached an agreement of a one -month suspension that did not affect her season.
The case recovers the validity with the resolution and the agreement now reached by Jannik Sinner, sanctioned with three months outside the competition that will barely affect their route and its situation in the circuit. Closed case.
Wawrinka: “I don’t believe in a clean sport”
The Swiss Stanislas Wawrika joined the Australian Nick Kyrgios and criticized the sanction agreement reached by the world number one, the Italian Jannik Sinner and the World Anti -Doping Agency (AMA) that will keep the San Cándido player three months away from the clues.
“I don’t believe in a clean sport,” said the winner of three Grand Slam titles, 39, still active.
Wawrinka thus criticized the resolution of the sports authorities that agreed that the doping sanction for the detection of closse Australian open.
Previously, Australian Nick Kyrgios said: “The Ama came out and said it would be a sanction of one or two years. Obviously, the Sinner team did everything possible to move forward and accept a three -month sanction, without losing titles or metallic awards. Guilty or not? A sad day for tennis. Justice in tennis does not exist, ”he said on social networks.
Kyrgios: “It’s a sad day for tennis”
For his part, the Australian Nick Kyrgios was the first to criticize the agreement reached between the world number one, the Italian Jannik Sinner, and the World Anti -Doping Agency (AMA) for which the recent winner of the Australian Open assumes a suspension of Three months by doping.
Kyrgios said that this was “a sad day for tennis” after becoming public that Sinner assumes a suspension that will hardly affect his season.
“The Ama came out and said it would be a sanction of one or two years. Obviously, the Sinner team did everything possible to move forward and accept a three -month sanction, without losing titles or metallic awards. Guilty or not? A sad day for tennis. Justice in tennis does not exist, ”Kyrgios said on social networks.
The Australian player, who has returned to the competition this season after months of absence, was one of the most critical of the position of sports authorities of the sports after, initially, the positive given by San Cándido by Clostebol and Impose only one fine and take away the points achieved in the Indian Wells Masters of 2024, where the positive was detected.
With EFE information.
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