US EditionNovak Djokovic on Jannik Sinner’s Doping Case: ‘Way Case Was Handled, so Many Red Flags’
Djokovic questions the three-month ban's timing and transparency, noting Sinner’s positive tests for clostebol and WADA’s acceptance of inadvertent ingestion via massages.
- In an interview with Piers Morgan, Novak Djokovic questioned the timing, transparency and suggested `preferable treatment` related to Jannik Sinner's three-month ban handed in February.
- Sinner twice tested positive in March 2024 for the anabolic agent clostebol, and the World Anti-Doping Agency accepted inadvertent entry after massages, allowing a February settlement for his French Open return.
- Djokovic praised Sinner's composure, saying he handled the `storm in the media` maturely but warned the fallout will hang over the 24-year-old like Djokovic's Australia deportation, 2022.
- Governing bodies defended their handling, noting the International Tennis Integrity Agency denied preferential treatment and the World Anti-Doping Agency upheld its decision, while Serena Williams said she would have faced harsher penalties.
- Multiple players have kept the story alive by voicing concerns, and Novak Djokovic warned the episode may linger, signalling longer-term scrutiny of anti-doping processes and governing bodies.
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Novak Djokovic on Jannik Sinner’s doping case: ‘Way case was handled, so many red flags’
“That cloud will follow him forever like Covid vaccine situation for me,” Djokovic said, referring to the 2022 case when he was deported from Australia for failing to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
Novak Djokovic Thinks Jannik Sinner Will Never Escape the 'Cloud' of His Steroid Ban and Questions 'Lack of Transparency'
The 24-time Grand Slam champ shared his opinion about the controversy while on "Piers Morgan Uncensored"Alexander Tamargo/Getty; Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Novak Djokovic; Jannik SinnerNEED TO KNOWNovak Djokovic has an opinion about Jannik Sinner's suspensionWhile on Piers Morgan Uncensored, the Serbian tennis star said he doesn't think people will forget the Italian athlete's ban for steroid useThe World Anti-Doping Agency handed down a ban …
Some passages of the interview that the Serbian champion gave to the British conductor Piers Morgan are very hard. Novak said everything he thinks about the case Clostebol that overwhelmed Sinner, here are his words
In a full-length interview with Piers Morgan, the Serbian legend spoke about Sinner, Alcarath, doping, his future and his most personal moments.
Novak Djokovic visited British journalist Piers Morgan.
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