By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Picture credit score: Miami Open/Laborious Rock Stadium
Daniil Medvedev is chasing Jannik Sinner within the rankings race, however would not need to be on the earth No. 1’s sneakers as his doping case took one other flip.
WADA is interesting Sinner’s steroid case to the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport—and searching for a ban of 1 to 2 years for the world No. 1.
Extra: WADA Appeals Sinner’s Doping Case, Seeks Ban for World No. 1
“It’s WADA’s view that the discovering of “no fault or negligence” was not appropriate beneath the relevant guidelines,” WADA mentioned in an announcement on Saturday. “WADA is searching for a interval of ineligibility of between one and two years. “WADA is just not searching for a disqualification of any outcomes, save that which has already been imposed by the tribunal of first occasion.”
Requested his view on the matter in Beijing, Medvedev referred to as it “a difficult scenario” and mentioned he believes fellow gamers are cut up of their views of Sinner’s scenario.
“I might usually suppose that the view, like every little thing in life, is a few suppose that he ought to be banned, no matter, some suppose no, he shouldn’t be,” Medvedev informed the media in Beijing. “My view is at all times on this stuff is form of attempt to distance myself the place the scenario could be very powerful for him, for positive, to cope with it.
“As I at all times mentioned, nobody desires to be on this scenario as a result of, I mentioned it in US Open press, for me think about tomorrow you get an e mail, as a result of I feel it is an e mail, you fail your doping check. They are saying for no matter cause, like cocaine or some drug you do not even know the title of. You are like, Wow, what I do now as a result of I do not know the way it occurred that it is in my pee, blood, no matter.
“So, yeah, it is a tough scenario.”
Reigning US Open and Australian Open champion Sinner mentioned he is upset by WADA’s enchantment. Sinner, who twice examined constructive for metabolites of the banned steroid clostebol, was permitted to proceed taking part in as he twice efficiently appealed, ultimately incomes a “no fault” choice from an unbiased tribunal.
“Clearly, I’m very upset and likewise shocked,” Sinner informed the media in Beijing. “We had three hearings. “All three hearings got here out very positively for me. Possibly they simply need to be sure that every little thing is in the appropriate place.”
WADA appeals case of tennis participant Jannik Sinner. Learn extra right here: https://t.co/vExHGdmkZG
— WADA (@wada_ama) September 28, 2024
The 2021 US Open champion Medvedev, who misplaced to Sinner within the 2024 AO closing, mentioned he is “sympathetic” to the two-time Grand Slam champion, however does not consider the case scars tennis.
“I need to say he does what he must do. WADA does in all probability what they should do,” Medvedev mentioned. “Let’s examine the way it finishes. We thought perhaps it was completed, however no.
“Yeah, I am the identical slightly bit like Carlos [Alcaraz]. I am sympathetic to Jannik. I do not suppose it has a foul, actually dangerous look in tennis as a result of I feel, yeah, if 10 top-10 gamers all of a sudden can be on the identical substance or one thing, it could be totally different. I feel it is simply a person scenario which we’ll see the way it ends.”
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