Sinner, the signs are all there: ‘It doesn’t exist in any country’.
Let’s face it: the most incredible thing is that Jannik Sinner manages to play like this despite the fact that a very heavy accusation hangs, on his head. Spring is approaching and, with it, the time when the Tas in Lausanne will rule on the issue of his doping positivity. The risk that he will be disqualified for a certain period of time is unfortunately there and it is real, yet it has not affected his extraordinary mental resilience in any way.
The hope is that justice will triumph and that the world number 1 will not have to pay, as is feared, for a fault that is fundamentally not his. Because, it is fair to remember, the chain of negligence started with two of his team members and not with the San Candido champion. A detail of no small importance, although Wada disputes that a tennis player of his caliber should not be so “light” with respect to certain issues, but so be it.
There is someone, however, who is confident of a reversal. That someone is Massimiliano Ambesi, a journalist for Eurosport, who in the past few hours has indulged in some rather interesting reflections on the legal affair involving the king of the Atp ranking. He did so during his usual appointment with TennisMania, aired, as always, on the OA Sport YouTube channel.
Sinner, it can’t be: word of Ambesi
The journalist, starting from a very recent news story, developed an argument that, as it stands, seems not to actually even make a dent.
“In Swiatek’s case (against whom Wada did not appeal, ed.) there is fault and in fact she was sanctioned,” Ambesi noted.
“In Sinner’s case, the defense strategy is to show how there is no fault, and that is why the ITIA court decided, if you will, to dismiss the case, saying ‘For me there is no fault or negligence, no sanction. The clash with Wada is about that, we will see who is right. I am convinced that Sinner is right, I have been saying this since late August, I see that slowly so many experts in the field have come to my side, at first they were not close to me, we did not have the same direction.”
“The various cases that are coming one after another,” he added, ”even the affair related to the curling team skip, only confirm what we have been saying for months and months. So Jannik Sinner cannot answer for faults of a collaborator, related to the personal sphere of the collaborator, does not exist in any civilized country, in any modern legal system, so we will see how it will end.” Wada would not, in his view, have these big legal weapons to “beat” Sinner. And we can only hope, at this point, that he is right.