At the end of December, Serbian Tennis star Novak Djokovic regretted the lack of “transparency and the inconsistency of protocols”, stressing that other players caught in doping cases had been waiting “for more than a year for their case to be resolved “.
The World Anti-Doping Agency, also dissatisfied, appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and demands a suspension of one to two years for Sinner, who is about to begin the defense of his title at the Open d ‘Australia.
If Djokovic, winner of 24 Grand Slam tournaments, said he believed Sinner when he said he tested positive for clostebol following contamination by his physiotherapist, he said he “was very frustrated, like most other players, of having been kept in the dark for five months”.
Sinner “received the news (of the positive tests) in April and the announcement wasn’t made until August, just before the US Open. The ATP hasn’t really spoken in depth about why it kept this matter away from the public,” he lamented.
-For Andrea Gaudenzi, “there was a lot of false information”. The ATP boss says he only learned of Sinner’s doping affair “two days before the Itia announcement – as it should be”.
“I was a little shocked at first. (But Itia) is completely independent and it turned to an independent court” to make its decision, he insisted.
Even if Sinner was suspended, “I think he will survive and we will survive. Tennis is a very strong product,” he concluded.
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