BEIJING. Jannik Sinner said he was “very surprised and disappointed” regarding the appeal of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) which appealed to the Tas (Tribunal of Arbitration for Sport) on his positivity to Clostebol. “It’s not very simple, but I can’t control everything,” he added in the press conference after the hard-fought victory over Safiullin.
“It’s not simple, because I thought it was finished. But it still isn’t and I can’t control everything,” added Sinner. “I at least try to concentrate as much as possible on tennis, as much as I can. It’s not very easy at the moment,” admitted the world tennis number one. “Let’s see what comes out, we had three auditions and I came out innocent. And this is very positive. You can never change some things.” For this reason, “I’m quite confident that it will be the same this time, that it will turn out that I’m innocent. I think it’s obvious” since “in my head I know I didn’t do anything wrong, nothing wrong. But now let’s see what the Tas will say, which is the last hearing.”
Regarding the timing of Wada’s appeal, Sinner stated that he had known about it “privately for a few days, a couple of days. I am surprised, yes – he reiterated – but I also knew that it could happen. In short, it was known, we all know it. But, I repeat , there is the last hearing. Let’s also see when it will be because we don’t know yet.”
2024-09-28 14:06:30