Italy’s Jannik Sinner accepts the Rookwood Cup championship trophy after defeating Frances Tiafoe of the USA within the males’s singles remaining on day seven of the Cincinnati Open.
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Tennis world primary Jannik Sinner has been cleared of any wrongdoing for 2 anti-doping violations earlier within the season, the Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company (ITIA) introduced Tuesday.
Sinner supplied an in-competition pattern on the Indian Wells Masters on March 10, 2024 which contained the presence of a metabolite of clostebol at low ranges, in line with the ITIA.
An additional pattern, performed eight days later out of competitors, additionally examined constructive for low ranges of the identical metabolite.
“ITIA at this time confirms that an impartial tribunal convened by Sport Resolutions has dominated that Italian tennis participant Jannik Sinner bears No Fault or Negligence for 2 Anti-Doping Rule Violations underneath the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme (TADP),” mentioned the company in a press release on Tuesday.
“The participant defined that the substance had entered their system on account of contamination from a help workforce member, who had been making use of an over-the-counter spray (out there in Italy) containing clostebol to their very own pores and skin to deal with a small wound.”
The ITIA added that the help workforce member in query had utilized the spray between March 5-13 throughout which period additionally they supplied day by day massages and sports activities remedy to Sinner, which resulted within the contamination.
Whereas the 23-year-old Italian has been cleared of any wrongdoing, he might be stripped of his outcomes, prize cash and rating factors from Indian Wells, in accordance with the anti-doping guidelines in drive.
“I’ll now put this difficult and deeply unlucky interval behind me,” mentioned Sinner in a press release printed on X.
“I’ll proceed to do the whole lot I can to make sure I proceed to adjust to the ITIA’s anti-doping programme and I’ve a workforce round me which can be meticulous in their very own compliance.”
