Italian Jannik Sinner, world number one tennis, was suspended for three months after being tested positive for a prohibited substance.
For the world’s number one tennis, the cleaver fell. Italian Jannik Sinner has just been suspended for three months under a “settlement agreement” concluded with the World Anti -Doping Agency (AMA). The athlete will therefore not be able to participate in the Masters 1000 of Indian Wells and Miami in March, nor of Monte-Carlo and Madrid in April. But Jannik Sinner can still blow: the duration of his suspension will not prevent him from participating in Grand Slam tournaments.
“Under the terms of the agreement, Mr. Sinner will serve his period of ineligibility from February 9, 2025 to 11:59 p.m. to May 4, 2025 (which includes a credit for four days previously purged by the sportsman while he was under The blow of a provisional suspension) “, detailed on Saturday in a press release in AMA.
“AMA accepts that Mr. Sinner did not intend to cheat”
It is much less than what the agency asked initially. Tested positive with clostebol in March 2024, a prohibited substance, the AMA asked for a suspension of one to two years. With this agreement, she abandoned the appeal procedure launched in 2024 from the Arbitral Tribunal of Sport. Jannik Sinner, winner of the Australian Open, a triple Grand Slam winner, has indeed pleaded accidental contamination since the start of the case. A member of his entourage would have accidentally had the substance on his hands, which would have entered the Italian’s body during a massage.
“The AMA accepts that Mr. Sinner did not intend to cheat, that his exposure to clostebol did not give him any advantage in terms of performance improvement and that it occurred without its knowledge due The negligence of the members of his entourage, “said the body. But as the athlete remains “responsible for the negligence of those around him”, he was sanctioned three months.