Impressive on the courts in terms of his Tennis throughout this 2025 edition of the Australian Open, Jannik Sinner is also impressive mentally. Because for weeks, he has lived with a sword of Damocles above his head. Indeed, the Italian is still not out of the doping affair that hit him during 2024. On two occasions, in March 2024, tiny traces of clostebol, an anabolic, were detected in the body of the current indisputable world number one. An independent tribunal requested by the International Agency for Tennis Integrity (Itia) found, at the end of August, that he had committed no fault or negligence. A conclusion that the new double winner of the AO has since supported, explaining that he was contaminated by a member of his medical team.
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