New York. Swiss tennis star Roger Federer said on Tuesday that anti-doping authorities have questions to answer about the double standards applied to world number one Jannik Sinner after he escaped a suspension despite failing two tests earlier this year.
The 20-time Grand Slam champion called the drama surrounding Italian Sinner “a delicate situation” and “every athlete’s nightmare” but said he was confident Sinner did not intentionally use the banned substance clostebol.
“It’s not something we want to see in our sport. This kind of news, regardless of whether he did something or not (…) It’s noise that we don’t want,” Federer said in an interview with the program Today NBC’s “I understand the frustration that he’s been treated the same as everyone else, and I think that’s the crux of it.”
“I think we’re all pretty confident that Jannik didn’t do anything, but the possible inconsistency that he had to sit out while they weren’t 100 percent sure what was going on, I think that’s the question that needs to be answered.”
“But that’s how it is. We have to trust the process, and all those involved.”
