Main figure behind Sinner’s doping speaks out: A string of unfortunate events

It took eighteen months for Giacomo Naldi, the main histrion of the doping ungraded that rocked tennis, to yet speak. People are inactive divided connected the full communicative - immoderate judge that Jannik Sinner did unfairly, portion others judge that his vocation could person been ruined, adjacent though helium had nary volition of breaking the rules.

Naldi was the Italian ace's physiotherapist erstwhile Sinner tested affirmative doubly successful Indian Wells past year. Everything was aboriginal explained arsenic an accidental mistake. Fitness manager Umberto Ferrara brought a gel from the pharmacy that Naldi applied to the injured digit and done which the banned substance clostebol was transferred to Sinner's skin. 

It is problematic that Naldi massaged his manus without gloves, which made the concern adjacent worse.

"It's the archetypal clip I'm speaking officially since everything happened. I've ne'er said a connection until now, though determination were my fabricated statements," said Naldi. 

"Everything that happened was a bid of unfortunate coincidences. And we are each alert of that. I ne'er wanted to remark connected the full situation, and I ne'er will. Although the full communicative hurts maine a lot, some personally and professionally."

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Sinner's physiotherapist precocious spoke with Sinner successful New York. 

"We were benignant to each other. We exchanged immoderate accusation from our backstage lives. I besides spoke to Cahill, helium is ever bully to me. What happened, can't beryllium undone. We each person to crook the page. Life goes on," helium added.

Currently, Naldi is moving with Francesco Passaro, an Italian tennis subordinate ranked 139th successful the world. 

"I saw a batch of radical and they each greeted me. I besides saw Carlos Alcaraz. He was ever bully to me. I didn't announcement immoderate atrocious looks. By present everyone knew what happened," helium said.

The ungraded was covered up for a agelong time, and Sinner was lone punished with a three-month suspension this year. In the meantime, helium fired Ferrara and Naldi, replacing them with Marco Paniki and Ulises Badia, who had antecedently worked with Novak Djokovic.