NEW YORK — Novak Djokovic will get why some tennis gamers query whether or not there is a double-standard within the sport after Jannik Sinner was not suspended regardless of twice testing constructive for steroids, and stated Saturday that he agrees that there’s “a scarcity of consistency.”
Sinner examined constructive twice in March for an anabolic steroid, however the Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company decided the banned performance-enhancer entered his system unintentionally via a therapeutic massage from his physiotherapist.
The ruling was introduced Tuesday, lower than every week earlier than Sinner begins the US Open because the No. 1-seeded man. Djokovic, who gained the match final yr for his males’s-record twenty fourth Grand Slam singles title, is the No. 2 seed.
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“I perceive the frustration of the gamers is there, due to a scarcity of consistency,” Djokovic stated. “As I understood, his case was cleared the second principally it was introduced.”
Some gamers commented on social media after the information broke, questioning if Sinner caught a break due to his standing as among the best gamers within the recreation.
“We see a scarcity of standardized and clear protocols. I can perceive the emotions of a whole lot of gamers which can be questioning whether or not they’re handled the identical,” Djokovic stated.
Djokovic stated the Skilled Tennis Gamers Affiliation, which he co-founded, advocates on behalf of gamers for clear and honest protocols and standardized approaches to circumstances.
“Many gamers … have had comparable or just about the identical circumstances, the place they have not had the identical final result,” Djokovic stated, “and now the query is whether or not it’s a case of the funds — whether or not a participant can afford to pay a big amount of cash for a legislation agency that will then extra effectively symbolize his or her case.”
Carlos Alcaraz, the 2022 US Open champion, stated Sinner’s case was a fragile challenge.
“I believe there’s one thing behind this that lots of people does not know. I do not even know. In the long run it is one thing very tough to speak about,” Alcaraz stated.
“In the long run, he examined constructive, however there should be a cause that allowed him to maintain enjoying that we do not know. So I can’t discuss so much about it. He was declared harmless and so we’ve Jannik within the match, and so there’s not a lot to speak about and I am no place so as to add the rest.”
