Jannik Sinner, the world’s No. 1 ranked tennis player, was handed a three-month suspension for his two positive doping tests in 2024, but many in the tennis world are claiming “favoritism” and expressing skepticism with the process, according to 24-Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic. “There’s a majority of the players that I’ve talked to in … Read more
After Jannik Sinner’s doping case ended with the World No 1 accepting a three-month ban, Sky Sports News’ Geraint Hughes answers the key questions to have arisen from the saga. How did Jannik Sinner test positive for a banned substance? Sinner tested positive twice in March 2024 for a banned anabolic steroid called Clostebol which … Read more
Nick Kyrgios says the leniency of a three-month ban given to world No 1 Jannik Sinner after two positive drug tests in 2024 has shown that “fairness in tennis does not exist”. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announced on Saturday that it had reached an agreement with Sinner over a three-month suspension, which will allow … Read more
Happy holidays, and prepare for the greatest gift: tennis returns tomorrow, December 27. In the spirit of looking back on the previous season and remembering all the moments big and small that defined it, here is a compendium of tennis stories of all kinds from The Athletic’s tennis writers, Matt Futterman and Charlie Eccleshare, with … Read more
It was only six months into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine when, on a balmy September evening in eastern Germany, I came across Mykhailo Mudryk shortly after midnight. This was September 2022 and Mudryk was by then an emerging talent for the Ukrainian champions, Shakhtar Donetsk. He scored and was the team’s major attacking threat in … Read more