Rio de Janeiro.- The case of Italian Jannik Sinnersuspended three months by the world anti -doping agency (Love), subtracted “credibility” to tennis, the Argentine idol considered Friday Juan Martín del Potrorecently retired from the courts.
“I think in this case they all lost a little credibility: ATP, anti -doping systems, the image of Sinner, fans. I think no one came out with something positive of all that,” said the world’s three of the world in a press conference in Rio de Janeiro.
On February 15, Ama suspended Sinner, number one of the ranking, for three months.
The decision caused a stir and questions in the world of tennis, including Serbian Novak Djokovic, which pointed out “incoherence” in the treatment of different cases of doping.
The 23 -year -old Italian gave positive by clostebol – an anabolic – last March, in a control revealed five months later by the International Tennis Integrity Agency, which imposed minor sanctions.
But he was finally punished until May 4 after arriving at a “conciliation agreement” with La Ama, which had requested a suspension of up to two years.
SINNER, which awards the positive to accidental contamination, several tournaments will be lost, but no Grand Slam, so it could keep the first position of the ATP ranking.
“He did the Indian Wells (in March), (he had) a positive test twice and before the US Open the entire case is publicly known, without any sanction. So that is what I see weird,” said Del Potro, 36.
“If they knew it for months and they didn’t make it public, I don’t understand why they did it before US Open if the case was closed,” he added. He clarified that he did not know “details” of the matter and that he did not judge Sinner.
Winner of 22 Titles of the ATP, including the 2009 United States Open, of the Potro is in the postal city of Brazil as guest of the organizers of the ATP 500 of Rio de Janeiro, the main tennis tournament in South America.
About South American tennis
The Argentine praised the Brazilian sensation Joao Fonseca, 18, who fell in the first round of the Carioca tournament on Tuesday.
“You have to go patiently and that (fans) enjoy it, because there are also cases where it can be the best in the world, but so much pressure and so many spotlights about it end up exploiting it and does not end getting anything,” he said.
“As a Latin American I would like it to continue growing, that it can be the next Latin American to win a great Slam or another Argentine, but that South American tennis, with Fonseca and with the boys of Argentina, have a weight again in world tennis,” he said.
