Novak Djokovic has broken its silence in the doping ban faced by the world 1 Jannik Sinner.
Singner had to appear before the Arbitration Court for Sports in April, after the world anti doping appealed the decision of the Tennis Integrity Agency to clarify it from any guilt for two failed evidence last March.
On Saturday morning it was announced that Sinner had agreed with Wada to accept a three -month suspension, essentially an agreement outside the court.
If such a prohibition had been issued in April, it would have taken the Italian from the open of France and Wimbledon. At the beginning of the prohibition now, I don't. It will return just in time for its local event, the Open of Italy.
That was one of the most meek savings in the world of tennis. Nick Kyrgios, Sinner's main antagonist throughout the saga, said in X: 'Obviously, the Sinner team has done everything in its possession to have a three -month prohibition. Guilty or not? Sad day for tennis. Justice in tennis does not exist.
Djokovic, who is now one of Sinner's rivals, but at the opposite end of his career, has talked about the prohibition that the Italian now faces.
Novak Djokovic (left) has broken its silence in the doping ban on Jannik Sinner (right)
Sinner agreed with Wada to accept a three -month suspension, which means that the France or Wimbledon Open will not be lost
Djokovic revealed that he spoke with several other players, who “believe there was favoritism”
“I talked to several players in the locker room,” Djokovic said. 'Not only in recent days but also in the previous months. Most of them are not satisfied with how the whole process has gone, and do not believe it is fair. Many of them believe there was favoritism.
'We have seen the cases of Simona Halep and Tara Moore, and other perhaps less known players, who have had difficulties for years to solve their cases, or that have been suspended for a long time.
'I think it's really time to do something and address the system, because it is clear that the structure doesn't work that way.
'So yes, it is inconsistent and it seems very unfair, and that is all I have to say about it. We will see what happens in the near future, if the whole case will attract more attention and can shed light on other cases of lower level players. And we have to keep in mind that Sinner and Swiatek, at that time, were number 1 in the world.
A declaration of the Ama that announces the news said: 'Wada accepts that Mr. Sinner did not intend to cheat and that his exposure to closhebol did not provide any benefit to improve performance and took place without his knowledge as a result of the negligence of the members of his entourage.
“However, under the code and by virtue of CAS's precedent, an athlete has the responsibility for the negligence of the entourage.”
So why has the AMAD accepted this agreement, when they only said this month they were looking for one or two years? For them, the duration of the ban is less important than strengthening the mantra that an athlete is responsible for what enters his body, especially when that substance was administered, however, without knowing it, by a member of his own team.
In addition, a three -month prohibition is in the stadium of what most tennis experts believed it was more likely. The CAs have shown a tendency to find a midpoint in most cases of appeal: neither an acquittal nor a great prohibition seemed likely.
Sinner said the case has been 'hanging on him for years' before the agreement on the prohibition
Both the ITIA and the WDA accept its explanation that the steroid entered its system during a massage, through an aerosol applied to the finger of its old physio.
“This case had been hanging on me for almost a year,” Sinner said in a statement.
'I have always accepted that I am responsible for my team and I realize that Wada's strict rules are an important protection for the sport I love.
“On that basis, I have accepted Wada's offer to resolve these procedures on the basis of a 3 months sanction.”