Sinner says expectations low at US Open

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 26 - World number one Jannik Sinner said Monday he had low expectations from the US Open where he starts as number one seed and one of the favourites, because his physical and mental fitness had take a knock from a doping case in which he was spared a ban due to the accidental nature of the contamination with a banned steroid.
    "I have low expectations at the moment. Even here at the US Open," the 23-year-old South Tyrolean told ESPN.
    "These months have been tough," he said referring to the two doping tests he failed at Indian Wells in March, for which he was docked his winning points and fee.
    "I (got through it) because I knew I had done nothing wrong," he said referring to the doping case.
    'The mind was affected, not just the hip injury: at Wimbledon I had sleepless nights and on court you could see the effect," he went on in commenting on a tournament where he was knocked out in the quarter-final by Russian world number four Daniil Medvedev while nursing the hip issue and also suffering from tonsillitis.
    "I was not playing happy," Sinner went on.
    "Now I'm happy to be here, I'm looking forward to it.
    "But I need to turn over a new leaf, to find my full potential I have to take it easy." (ANSA).