Tennis legend calls Jannik Sinner case “very strange”

A large matter rocked the tennis satellite past twelvemonth erstwhile Jannik Sinner tested affirmative doubly for clostebol successful Indian Wells. Although according to the study of the Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) the dose was negligibly small, the communicative soon became serious. The main culprit was identified arsenic the Italian's physiotherapist, who utilized contaminated medicine to dainty the coiled and past massaged Sinner without gloves. This is precisely however the substance got into the player's body.

This concern was kept concealed for a agelong time, truthful the nationalist lone learned astir the lawsuit a fewer months later. In the end, the 23-year-old tennis subordinate was punished with a three-month suspension, which caused convulsive reactions successful the public.

Borg: precise unusual that it happened twice

The fable of this sport, Björn Borg, commented connected the full matter successful an interrogation with "BBC".

The Swede did not fell that helium was surprised, particularly owed to the information that determination were 2 affirmative tests successful a abbreviated abstraction of time.

"I was precise amazed erstwhile I work the news. I deliberation it happened twice. If it happens once, fine, but twice… It's precise strange. I don't cognize what happened, really. I anticipation it wasn't thing serious," Borg said.

He past looked backmost astatine his clip and recalled that determination were besides talks astir doping backmost then. 

"When we played, I knew that a subordinate was utilizing thing that shouldn't beryllium taken. I don't privation to speech astir names, that's not important now. It's bully that determination are predominant tests contiguous and I recognize that sometimes players are tested respective times. I deliberation that protects tennis and keeps it wrong the boundaries of a cleanable sport," added the victor of eleven Grand Slams.

Sinner, aft all, became peculiarly unpopular among Novak Djokovic's fans. Although the prohibition was short, the matter volition travel him for a agelong clip and it volition beryllium hard for him to reconstruct his representation successful the eyes of galore fans.