Sinner, it’s the same old thing, except now he has an ally who travels on the same wavelength as him.
It wasn’t enough that he won 2 Slams. And for him to take home, at the end of the season, even the Finals cup, the tournament at the culmination of which it is decreed, at the end of the season, who deserves the title of master among masters. All these successes could do nothing. They did not erase, as we had hoped, the “stain” that soiled Jannik Sinner’s resume.
Nothing helped even the Itia ruling, which also proved, thanks to the evidence provided by the world number 1, that taking Clostebol was completely unintentional. Many people did not buy the story of the fortuitous contamination and the carelessness committed by the Blue’s athletic trainer and physiotherapist. One of them all: Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios, who has repeatedly intervened in this debate with a leg to stand on, hurling very serious accusations at his colleague from Alto Adige.
The Canberra bad boy is not the only one, however, who believes that Sinner deserves a disqualification and an epilogue different from the one decreed by Itia, which had cleared him of all charges. That someone is a tennis bigwig from the 1990s, namely Yevgeny Kafelnikov, who wanted to have his say on X, regarding the Clostebol affair, once news came of the disqualification of Iga Swiatek, who tested positive for trimetazidine.
No mercy for Sinner: now Kyrgios has an ally
“Sometimes I wonder – these are the words of the former tennis player – but why the hell didn’t I use steroids throughout my career. So maybe instead of 170 matches a year I could have gotten to maybe 300? There should be a lifetime disqualification for anyone caught using banned substances! – noted the Russian – No excuses and zero tolerance, no matter who you are!!!!”.
“And the saddest part of all this,” he continued, “is that young and up-and-coming players (12-16 years old) look up to their idols and think that maybe it’s okay to use steroids in the future and get away with it. Current players set a bad example for the younger generation.” This very harsh stance, a no-ifs-buts frontal attack on Sinner, was fully shared, needless to say, by Kyrgios.
The Australian retweeted Kafelnikov’s post, commenting on it with a laconic, yet eloquent, “Yes.” Which we expected, quite frankly, considering that it has been months now that the 2022 Wimbledon finalist has been calling for exemplary punishments for the world No. 1. And that he has not yet tired, as if he were a broken record, of repeating the same concept over and over again.
