The Skilled Tennis Gamers Affiliation (PTPA) has criticised the obvious inconsistencies between latest doping instances.
Final month it launched a brand new scheme providing gamers going through allegations of doping or corruption entry to professional bono authorized assist.
The scheme was co-founded by former British doubles participant Tara Moore, who served a two-year absence due to a doping ban which was later overturned.
Reacting to the information of Sinner’s ban, Moore posted on X: “Can somebody clarify how a negotiation was attainable?”
A PTPA assertion learn: “The ‘system’ isn’t a system. It is a membership. Supposed case-by-case discretion is, in reality, merely cowl for tailor-made offers, unfair remedy, and inconsistent rulings.
“It is not simply the completely different outcomes for various gamers. It is the shortage of transparency. The shortage of course of. The shortage of consistency…
“This bias is unacceptable for all athletes and exhibits a deep disrespect for each sport and its followers.”
Former Wimbledon champion Simona Halep has beforehand accused the Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company (ITIA) of double requirements – a declare it has strenuously denied.
Halep was given a four-year ban for 2 separate doping offences in 2022 which was later diminished to 9 months.
Halep was crucial when it was introduced world quantity two Swiatek would serve a one-month doping ban in November, posting on Instagram on the time: “I stand and ask myself, why is there such a giant distinction in remedy and judgment?
“I can not discover and I do not assume there could be a logical reply. It will probably solely be unhealthy will from the ITIA, the organisation that has finished completely all the things to destroy me regardless of the proof.”
