Sinner, the WADA deal demonstrates why the procedure is flawed
The tennis community's responses to two major events at either end of the Jannik Sinner doping controversy varied noticeably. The majority of his teammates, with the notable exception of the vocal Nick Kyrgios, walked a tightrope and supported the Italian's innocence from the beginning when the world No. 1's two positive tests from March of last year were made public before the US Open.
The three-month punishment following a deal with WADA has now taken them off the fence and firing away, despite the fact that many people still hold the belief that Sinner did not purposefully dope.
All of them might have some merit since, even if WADA decides that the three-time Grand Slam champion "did not intend to cheat," this episode had a level of timeliness and bargaining leverage that is nearly unheard of in tennis doping cases.
The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) initially granted Sinner the benefit of the doubt after he tested positive for the illegal chemical clostebol, which he said was accidentally transferred from his physiotherapist.
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