Jannik Sinner tested positive for a low amount of clostebol, a banned substance, in March of this year, and the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) accepted that the Italian had no intention.
He will be able to play at the US Open, and the only sanction is that his prize money and the points won at Indian Wells are cancelled.
Instead, there is already the precedent of the case of Simona Halep , who, unlike the Italian player in the men’s circuit, she was suspended for consuming Roxadustat.
What else did Simona Halep have to go through because of the anti-doping agents: “They were an hour and a half late”
If the athlete was excluded from the circuit from the moment the positive result from the anti-doping control was made public, the ATP leader was allowed to play during the six months, while the trial lasted, at the end of which the player was found not guilty.
In the case of Simona Halep, it took 340 days from the moment she was officially notified of the test result until she received the Sport Resolutions decision banning her from playing for another four years.
After a few more months, TAS returned to the decision, following the appeal made by Halep, and gave victory to the Romanian, who was able to return to the field after 17 months in which she was on the bar.
However, now, Simona Halep is more controlled than ever by the anti-doping authorities, even more than Jannik Sinner. Moreover, she was also put in front of an unfair situation compared to professional athletes, according to a statement by sources.
“Simona is now more controlled by the anti-doping than when she was in the circuit. I could say she’s more controlled than Sinner. Anti-doping controls are almost every three weeks.
It was at least a strange situation when she was notified that the anti-doping control team had come at a certain time, in a certain place where Simona was at that time.
They were late by almost an hour and a half and, nevertheless, Simona agreed to take the test even though the legal procedures clearly state that the athlete must be at the time set by the anti-doping officials and he has no obligation to wait for them beyond that time hour,” said the Orange Sport source.
Also, another very important piece of information to mention is the fact that Simona Halep is very cautious about everything she eats, everything she drinks, in order not to risk going through what she went through in recent years.
Jannik Sinner, the Australian Open champion, will play at the US Open, the last Grand Slam of the year, at the end of this month, with the main draw matches starting on Monday.
