Janik Sinner: Nick Kyrgios says a quarterly ban on rivals after doping case shows that “the righteousness in tennis does not exist” | | Tennis news
Nick Kyrgios says that the indulgence of a three-month ban is given to the world Sinner 1 Jannik after two positive drugs of drugs 2024 showed that “there is no righteousness in tennis”.
World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA) posted on Saturday that she had reached an agreement with a sinner for a three -month suspensionwhich will allow Italian to return on time for the next Grand Slam – Open Franch – which begins on May 25.
Sonner, who retained the title of Australian Open last month, requested his third Grand Slam triumph, tested positively in March 2024 on an anabolic steroid Klostebol, before being cleared by an independent court in August, which found that he was not guilty.
Wada complained against that decision by the Arbitral Court of Sport (CAS) in September and the next hearing was appointed on April 16 and 17, at which the Agency announced that he would ban the ban between one and two years for sinner.
The Italian accepted the period of incorrectness that suspended him from playing from February 9 to May 4, and on Saturday he said a statement that he made a decision because he realized that “strict Wada rules are important to protect the sport I love.”
Kyrgios, finalist of Wimbledon 2022, who was critical of treating the case since he became public, responded to an agreement through his X account on Saturday.
He wrote: “So, Wada come out and say it would be a ban of 1-2 years. Obviously Sinner’s team did everything in their power to go forward and take a three-month ban, he did not lose his titles, did not lose the prize money. It’s guilty or not?
In a separate post, he added, “I know a lot of players who feel the same way at the moment.
“So, he was found guilty – hence the ban. But nothing was taken away and he could play the French. The sad sad day of sad day.”
Sky Sports News He contacted Wada for commenting on Kyrgios’ posts on social media.
In the case presented by the International Tennis (ITIA) integrity agency, the tribunal accepted a more sinful explanation that the prohibited substance entered his body as a result of a massage of his physiotherapist, which used a spray containing a steroid to treat cutting on their finger.
Sonner then fired physius Giacomo Naldi and his coach Umberto Ferrara, who Sinner said to have supplied Naldi with a spray without a prescription.
However, Wada appealed to the CASA Sage to continue until the agreement brought him to a sudden conclusion.
In a statement published on Saturday, Wada explained that he still believed that the Sincner had not intended to cheat, but that he was responsible for the inattention of his environment.
The statement says: “Wada accepts the explanation of athletes for violating violation as stated in the first instance of the decision. Wada accepts that Mr. Sinner did not intend to cheat and that his exposure to Clostebol did not provide any benefit to increase performance and took place without his knowledge as a result of negligence members of his environment.
“However, according to the Code and Thanks to the PRESEED CAS, the athlete is responsible for the negligence of Entourage. Based on the unique set of facts of this case, a three-month suspension is considered a suitable outcome.”
In a statement divided with Sky Sports News According to his lawyers, the son said: “This case hung over me for almost a year, and the process has long had a long time to run with a decision maybe at the end of the year.
“I have always accepted that I am responsible for my own team and to realize that the strict rules of Wada are an important protection of sports I love. On that basis, I accepted the WADA offer to solve these procedures based on a quarterly sanction.”
Although a sinner had to take away his 400 points from the tournament where he tested positively to Indian Wells – and a prize money in the amount of $ 325,000 – he managed to continue to compete and continued to win the US Open in September 2024 and Australian Open in January 2025.
Wada reiterated that she did not ask for “disqualification of any results” except the verdict of the Indian wells that had been executed before.
Sonner will miss four ATP Masters 1000 events in March – Indian Wells and Miami, along with Monte Carl and Madrid in April. They will have the right to return to the home event, Masters 1000 in Rome on May 7th.
Henman: ‘Suitable’ a sinner of the settlement leaves a ‘sour taste’
Former British No 1 and Sky Sports tennis Pundit Tim Henman said that the agreement “seems a little too appropriate” and “leaves a pretty sour taste for sports.”
The case for doping Sinner took place along with the other for the women’s world no. 1 Iga Swiatek, in which the five -time winner served a one -month suspension after testing a positive about heart medicines in August 2024.
In the case of Swiadite, Wada decided not to appeal against the judgment of Iti.
Henman said Sky Sports News: “Two of the best players in the world, one in men, one in women, had drug cases. With sinful, I want to start first and foremost, saying that I did not mean any way that she was trying to cheat at any stage.
“However, when I read this statement this morning, it seems a little too appropriate. There seems to be words like” agreement “, and it almost seems to have been negotiating.
“And obviously, after just winning the Australian Open, missed three months of tour and therefore have the right to play at Roland Garros, the time could not have been better for a sinner.
“But I still think it leaves a pretty sour taste for sports. I’m sure we’ll understand a little more because it’s such a fresh story. But that’s too appropriate to me right now.
“I think when you are drug in sports, it must be black and white. It is binary, positive or negative, you are forbidden or not forbidden.
“And I think then you start reading words like a” settlement “or” agreement “, it seems that there was a negotiation and I don’t think it will sit well with the cohort of players and sports fans.”
