Jannik Sinner confides unpleasant details on doping-issue
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Jannik Sinner gave an exclusive interview to Sky Sport Italy, where he talked about many interesting topics, including the controversial Clostebol doping-issue. The Italian was tested positive for Clostebol at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells. ITIA accepted the tennis player's explanation of involuntary contamination with the substance that entered Sinner's body in a series of massages by the former physiotherapist of the Italian tennis player. But WADA appealed against this decision and asked the CAS to sentence Sinner to one to two years of suspension for negligence.
In the interview with Sky Sinner he confessed that it was a very complicated period: "I didn't know how I had to behave, I didn't know what would come out, I didn't know what would happen with the team. I couldn't open up to so many people. It was easy to lose control. I didn't sleep, like the night before the match against Medvedev at Wimbledon. One morning I woke up and realized that even the judge's decision didn't depend on me but that I hadn't done anything wrong. At the US Open the case was already public knowledge and I changed my training program: I trained in the evening, so there would be fewer people. I looked around to observe the looks of others to understand what they were really thinking. I asked myself so many questions. Deep down I am convinced that nothing happens by chance, and perhaps this happened precisely to understand who is your friend and who isn't. I understood that there are so many players who I didn't think were my friends and they are and there is a fairly large number who I thought were friends and instead they aren't. And in the end I won't say that this did me any good, but it made me understand many things. I'm happy with how I handled it because it was very difficult. I'm happy when I go on the pitch and put on my cap, on the pitch I feel safe."
Jannik Sinner says the fact that he knew he was innocent helped him to keep playing at such a high level while dealing with his case, ‘If I had known that it was my fault, I would not have played like that’ “There are many things that happened in this period that I tried to put… pic.twitter.com/W8MhZCuq19
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