The Italian Jannik Sinner It’s been the focus of recent weeks on and off the slopes. He maintains his composure on the outside, although only he knows how he handles on the inside the difficult situation in which he was involved and suddenly reappeared, compromising his sporting future.
He is the world number one, champion of Cincinnati and the US Open in the middle of summer. He has 14 games without losing. He consolidated his leadership in the ATP rankings, while fighting to be inseparable from tennis.
The double positive for clostebol in March, during the April tournament, did not stop his career because he won two appeal processes to avoid being suspended pending the final resolution of the case.
The independent panel of International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) He accepted his thesis of external contamination because of a massage given by his former physiotherapist, who used a spray with clostebol to heal a finger wound.
It seems to be a closed case, but a month later the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), who brought the matter to Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS), located in Lausanne (Switzerland), requesting a penalty of between one and two years suspension from tennis.
Carlos Alcaraz was asked in Beijing about the AMA movement. He commented that “this is not a good sign for tennis” and stressed wishing the best for Jannik Sinner, where he said that “it is wonderful how he continues to play at a high level despite of everything happening around him.”
This sentence was saved this Monday in the Italian’s official press conference after qualifying for the Beijing semi-finals. In this regard, Sinner pointed out that “first of all, this is not a situation that I want to be in. It is very delicate, difficult and different. But I always try to remind myself that I have not done anything wrong,” he said.
And he went into detail about Alcaraz’s comment about his performance in a sensitive moment. “I’ve had sleepless nights during this time. It’s not going to be easy again. I’m disappointed to be in this situation again. I’m trying to focus on my job, do everything I can to be ready for every game .”
It puts attitude in a “difficult moment for me and my team. I keep close to me the people with whom I feel good, the ones who know me best. But it is not easy, I assure you,” he concluded.
Source: La Verdad
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