It was in the days before the US Open in August that tennis’s integrity unit, ITIA, announced that it had cleared Sinner of doping offenses committed in March, an investigation that was kept secret.
Sinner was deemed innocent when his physio gave him a massage without gloves, even though the physio himself treated a wound in his finger with the spray Trofodermin and ingested the steroid Clostebol. The small amount of Clostebol that Physio got on his fingers spread to Sinner and resulted in the test.
Sinner then fired the physio and the physical trainer after the incident.
– I have constantly thought about where we went wrong and what we could have done better. “I had days when I didn’t feel well, nights when I didn’t sleep well,” Sinner told fans in the stands in Turin in Italian, according to the AP, a title that meant extra because it was the first in Italy this year — he was ill during the tournament in Rome this summer.
“People around me keep me stable”
The international court of arbitration, Cas, has appealed against ITIA’s acquittal, and the three-judge panel will probably not make a ruling until next year. It may not be decided before the Australian Open in January.
Sinner has adapted to the uncertainty surrounding the doping investigation and the questions it constantly raises.
– But I try not to think about what happens outside the track. I am lucky to have people around me who keep me stable. Thanks to them, we have continued to work hard every day as if there is no tomorrow and we have even improved during this period, said Sinner who will participate with his Spain in the Davis Cup in Malaga in the same arena as the women right now Billie Jean is playing King Cup.