Jannik Sinner won the Shanghai Masters 1000 this Sunday. The Italian defeated Novak Djokovic to continue a dream season that was only overshadowed by his famous positive for clostebol in March.
The world number 1 admitted after the final that the doping accusation against him continues to affect him: “People think that winning means you don’t have problems, but that’s not true.”
“The situation I’m in is uncomfortable. I hope I’m not in this position off the court, and I can play more freely on the court, enjoy more,” Sinner said in a press conference.
“It’s been a very difficult year for me. At times I’ve lost my smile, it’s never easy to play in these situations. But I’m just trying to enjoy the court as much as possible. You have to accept it, I loud when I’m on the court, it’s like I’m not focused on it,” the tennis player added.
“I have a few moments where I think about it, and it’s not comfortable. You succeed in a different way. manage to close a year at the top of the ATP ranking.
That case cost the job of Giacomo Naldi, who is his physiotherapist and is accused of being the main person responsible for the two positive doping of the Italian player, who in recent times has made some disturbing statements.
“I’m very sorry, I wish I could tell everything that happened, but I cannot speak because the case is not over, unfortunately. I hope that, sooner or later, I can tell what happened to offer a little light because the current interpretations I They leave me as the only one to blame, but that is not the case,” he declared to the Italian media ‘Leggo’.
Despite the fact that the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) declared him not guilty for consuming clostebol, a banned substance, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announced two weeks ago that it appeals against this decision, requesting a punishment of up to two years for the Sinner.
Source: La Verdad
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