March 10, 2024, Jannik Sinner is on the field for the third round of Masters 1000 di Indian Wells. The South Tyrolean is not yet world number 1 (he will become so at the beginning of June) but he is in great shape. He faces the German Jan-Lennard Struffwins quite easily in two sets (6-3 6-4), scores her 17th consecutive victory and flies to the round of 16.
The bandaged finger
In the stands, at the Indian Wells Garden, there is also James NaldiSinner’s physiotherapist since 2022, a past in the Virtus Bologna basketball team. There is a detail, which no one gives importance to at that moment but which after five months becomes important. The Naldi’s little finger on his left hand is bandageda plaster or a small white bandage. March 10 is the day of first doping test in which Sinner tested positive for Clostebol, the substance present in the over-the-counter drug that Naldi had used to treat a small cut on his finger and which he unknowingly transmitted into Sinner’s body through a massage performed without gloves.
Sinner and doping: why he wasn’t suspended and the mystery of the Olympics
by Matteo Pinci
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– 2024-08-21 11:41:56
