Jannik Sinner, anxiety grows over Clostebol ruling.

Jannik Sinner, anxiety grows over Clostebol ruling

After the doping case of Iga Swiatek, suspended for a month, anxiety grows around Jannik Sinner. The world No. 1 had been cleared for taking Clostebol, but WADA, the world anti-doping agency, appealed this verdict and now it will be up to Tas, the Court of Arbitration for Sport, to rule.

Swiatek’s case, however, è differs from Jannik’s, in that the Polish è was found positive last August and was found to have trimetazidine, a banned substance found in a packet of melatonin purchased from Iga in Poland, on which the substance was not indicated on the label.

Both Sinner’s and Swiatek’s cases were characterized by “absence of fault and negligence” but in the case of the No. 2 WTA it was “significant negligence” for which the Polish accepted fault and suspension for one month.

Sinner’s retrial will be held in February after the Australian Open and the South Tyrolean will have to present his defense brief, which WADA has already done as a prosecution instead. If Jannik succeeds in proving his innocence he will be acquitted, otherwise he faces one to two years of disqualification.