“Every player who gets tested positive has to go through the same process,” he said. “There is no shortcut, there is no different treatment.”
Sinner played for months as he waited for the ITIA to complete their investigation and reflected on the anxiety that haunted him throughout the summer swing with an unintentionally comedic turn of phrase.
“It was a long process,” Sinner recalled. “I was always concerned that it might come out at some point. In the beginning was a different view, but then after, you know, it was a little bit more complicated.
“I went through, like, me and my team and the lawyers, I’m just a simple tennis player, no? That’s what I love to do.”
