The Italian Jannik Sinner He will play in the US Open quarterfinals for the second time in his career. The current Australian Open champion and world No. 1 is showing the good form that allowed him to win the Cincinnati ATP Masters 1000 before traveling to New York.
He beat the American Tommy Paul by 7-6 (3), 7-6 (5) and 6-1 in 2h.42′, meeting this Wednesday with the Russian Daniil Medvedev, in a confrontation described by many as an early final at the moment they were left out of the tournament Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic. Although there are still quality players in the fight for the trophy.
The sinner remains immune to the trouble that arose when it was discovered, before the last Grand Slam of the season, that he tested positive twice, for clostebol, in two anti-doping tests during the Indian Wells tournament in March.
He was not suspended because he appealed this punishment, and it stood. He will not stop playing tennis. He lost India Wells points and money, but the independent panel of International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) approved the tennis player’s explanations, pointing to his former physiotherapist Giacomo Naldiwho allegedly applied an over-the-counter spray to the wound on his finger before giving the message to Sinner. The physical trainer also costs his work, Umberto Ferrara, who recommended the use of a drug with a doping substance.
Many appealed in the locker room to the fact that number 1 was not treated in the same way as tennis players who underwent similar processes. This clouded a case where there were fewer doubts about the voluntariness of Jannik Sinner.
The swiss Roger Federer is strong about it, in a line opened by Rafael Nadal in his intervention in the program ‘El Hormiguero’. The one from Basel explained his thesis in an interview with the American television show NBC Today.
“It’s not something we want in our sport. This kind of news, regardless of whether something is done or not, is a lot of noise that we don’t want in tennis,” Federer said.
He warned about how things were done. “I understand the frustration about whether he’s being treated like everyone else and that’s where the problem is,” he warned.
Federerwho was in New York promoting a book, referred to Jannik Sinner as aware that he was living “every athlete’s worst nightmare. It’s a complicated situation.”
He exuded confidence in his demeanor. “I think we’re all pretty confident now Jannik he didn’t do anything, but the question that needs to be answered is why the possible inconsistency that he didn’t have to sit down if they weren’t one hundred percent sure of what was going on.” That is, why he wasn’t suspended. , as usually happens , before fully to clarify the case Why he played from March to August without problems, why his appeal for a suspension was accepted.
But that’s it, we have to trust the process and everyone involved in it,” he added.
Source: La Verdad
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