The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announced on Saturday that it had filed an appeal on Thursday in the case of world number 1 Jannik Sinner. The Italian was cleared at the end of August by the International Agency for Tennis Integrity (Itia) after testing positive twice for clostebol, a banned substance, in March.
In its press release the body “considers that the conclusion of absence of fault or negligence was not correct with regard to the applicable rules” and, consequently, “WADA requests a suspension period of one to two years » for Sinner, without his results since his positive tests, including his victory at the US Open, being canceled.