Tennis players revolt over Sinner’s acquittal after two positives

Having the surname Sinner (sinner in English) does not help the current number 1 in men’s tennis to be publicly absolved by his co-religionists as the ATP or the ITIA did. An independent court concluded on Tuesday that the Italian tennis player did not commit any fault or negligence in two cases of doping with the anabolic steroid clostebol that were detected in March, the first of which was at the Masters 1,000 in Indian Wells and the second eight days later in an out-of-competition control and several tennis players were charged against him.

Without mincing words, as usual, the Australian Nick Kyrgios when it comes to showing up by posting on your X account.

“Your performance has improved. Massage cream… Yes, okay,” he added.

And the ‘Aussie’ responded to some users after his initial criticism: “(If he didn’t improve his performance), then why did they take away his prize money and Indian Wells points? Did he do something wrong or no? Because they said who tested negative,” he argued.

“Accidental? Do you think the physiotherapist put physiotherapy cream on a cut that made him fail two anabolic steroid tests the Australian tennis player asked another user of this social network, making it very clear what he was thinking ?”

But he was not the only one to take a stand against Sinner’s acquittal. The French Lucas Pouille It is also short and direct. “Maybe they’ll stop us being stupid, right?” He then pointed out “what happens to players who are sanctioned simply for not showing up for a surprise test three times and not testing positive?”

The Canadian Denis Shapovalov He also took a stand against it and twice: “I can’t imagine how all the other players who have been sanctioned for contaminated substances feel today. Different rules for different players. “

Your countryman Vasek Pospisil He also expressed a harsh adherence to the comment of Pouille about tennis players missing three surprise reviews due to some scheduling error: “It’s even worse now with “presentation errors” and going back months to see where you went wrong with the details of your presentations. This happened to me when I put in the correct address and time… they didn’t come to test me, but they saw that my entry was “in competition” vs “out of competition”. I appealed and they didn’t withdraw it.Then you can have two filing errors and one failure to appear and be penalized for 2 years.

The Portuguese Gastao Elias After retweeting Kyrgios’ comment, he said that “tennis is officially a joke.”

The American Tennys SandgrenNo. 335 in the world and became 61st in the world, is more: “This is ridiculous hahaha second-hand steroids through massage?? ATP always looking for its money generators. Good for business, bad for transparency and integrity ,” he wrote.

The offender tested positive in a test conducted on March 10 in Indian Wells and eight days later, another sample, out of competition, confirmed the presence of clostebol metabolites at low levels, which automatically caused him to be temporarily suspended. The player appealed the two provisional suspensions to an independent tribunal appointed by Sport Resolutions and was able to continue playing.

This August the independent court appointed by Sports Resolutions accepted the explanation of Sinner, who cooperated at all times, that the anabolic agent clostebol entered his body through massages and sports therapy performed by his physiotherapist Giacomo Naldi. He explained that his physical trainer, Umberto Ferrara, had bought an over-the-counter spray in Italy for the physio to heal a wound on his finger and that he had applied it between March 5 and 13, not knowing that it contained of clostebol. The physio treated Sinner without gloves and with dermatitis, a skin lesion of the tennis player, “causing accidental contamination”,