Serb legend Novak Djokovic said
Sunday Jannik Sinner benefitted from favouritism in being
cleared of doping after testing positive twice for banned
steroid clostebol at Indian Wells earlier this year.
The record 24-time slam winner said Iga Swiatek had also got
favourable treatment in only getting a month's ban for her
doping case.
Djokovic, 37, said however that he had known Sinner "since he
was a young lad and I know he would never have done anything
like this deliberately", referring to the inadvertent
contamination by a cream used by his now sacked physio.
The Serb, rated the greatest ever by many, said world number
one, US Open and Australian Open champ Sinner had also suffered
from a "lack of transparency" over doping cases.
Thre World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has appealed to world
sports' ultimate tribunal, the Court of Arbitration for Sport
(CAS) in Lausanne, to overturn the 23-year-old South Tyrolean's
acquittal and hand him a two-year ban for using clostebol.
Sinner, who has ignited a tennis boom in Italy, had beaten the
great Serb in all their recent meetings.
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