Jannik Sinner won the Shanghai Masters 1000 this Sunday. The Italian beat Novak Djokovic to continue a dream season that has only been clouded by his famous positive for clostebol last March.
Jannik Sinner took the Shanghai ATP Masters 1000
The world number 1 confessed after the final that the doping accusation against him continues to affect him: “People think that winning means you don’t have problems, but it’s not true.“.
“The situation I am in is not comfortable. I wish I wasn’t in this position off the fieldand to be able to play with more freedom on the court, enjoy something more,” Sinner said at a press conference.
“It has been a very hard year for me. Sometimes I have lost my smile, it is never easy to play in these circumstances. But I just try to enjoy the track as much as possible. You have to accept it, I’m strong when I’m on the court. “I don’t think about it, I’m focused,” added the tennis player.
“I have some moments where I think about it, and it’s not comfortable. You take success differently. (…) Everything you can achieve on the court is an extra,” stressed the first Italian tennis player to manage to close a year at the top of the ATP rankings.
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That case cost the job of Giacomo Naldi, who was his physiotherapist and who was accused of being the main person responsible. of the two positive tests for doping by the Italian player, who in recent hours has made some disturbing statements.
Giacomo Naldi, with the little finger of his left hand bandaged
“I am very sorry, I wish I could tell everything that happened, but I cannot speak because the case is not over, unfortunately. I hope that, sooner or later, I can tell what happened to offer a little light because the current interpretations leave me as the only culprit, but that is not the case,” he declared to the Italian media ‘Leggo’.
Despite the fact that the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) declared him not guilty for the consumption of clostebol, a banned substance, The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announced just over two weeks ago that it would appeal against this ruling, demanding a sanction of up to two years. for Sinner.
