World number five Jessica Pegula believes that the handling of high -profile doping issues in which Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek are involved has shown that the “process is completely broken”. And Aryna Sabalenka from the top admits that she cannot trust the anti-doping system of tennis and has become “too scared” of it. The long doping-saga of Sinner came to an end on Saturday after he agreed to a three-month ban on tennis, the number one in the world that was admitted “partial responsibility” for team errors that led him to test twice on traces of Clostebol in March last year.
Sinner was confronted with a potential prohibition of two years after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against his first exemption by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA), announced in August .
In a surprising step, Wada moved in his profession and came to an agreement with Sinner to accept a three -month ban.
In a statement, Wada said: “Sinner was not going to cheat” but would serve his suspension because he is responsible for the actions of his entourage.
Swiatek accepted a ban from one month after testing positive for the forbidden Hart Drugstrimetazidine (TMZ) at the end of last year.
The 23-year-old pole was pulled from the Asian swing of the WTA in September-October, with reference to “personal affairs”.
Pegula, last year's US Open finalist and member of the WTA Players' Council, said that the inconsistencies in the way things are processed and assessed are creating an unfair environment for all tennis players.
“I think my reaction is that, or you think he did that or not, or which side you are not up to you, the process just doesn't seem to be a process at all,” the American told reporters in Dubai on Sunday.
– 'Make -Up rule' –
“It just seems like all decisions and factors that they take into account, and they just come up with their own statement.
“I don't really understand how that is honest for players if there is just as much inconsistency and you have no idea.”
Pegula added that all e-mails that the players have received with regard to anti-doping cases contain an explanation that are too easy to think of, and are simply ways for anti-doping organizations to justify their inconsistent statements and processes.
“If you are clean or not, the process is completely broken,” she said.
“I think it should be taken seriously and considered. I have the feeling that they have so much power to ruin someone's career. I think that should be something because it just seems very unfair.
“I don't think one of the players is currently trusting the process. Zero. It's just a terrible look for the sport.”
– 'too scared' Sabalenka –
Sabalenka refused to comment on the outcome of the Sinner case, but says that she has become too care to fall dirty in the strict anti-doping rules of the sport.
“You just start to become more careful. Before I don't care to let my glass of water and go to the bathroom in a restaurant. Now I am not going to drink from the same glass of water,” said the white -Russian world number one.
“You just become a little more aware of things and this thing comes to your head that, like, if someone has used a cream on you and your positive test, they will go for you and they will not believe you or anything.
“You just get too afraid of the system. I don't see how I can trust the system.”
Swiatek said she trusts that the process eventually became “honest”, when he was asked about her response to the sinner's decision.
“Any case is different. Every story is certainly different,” said the second ranking Swiatek.
“Because of Jannik or my situation, we are even a kind of celebrities, in addition to playing tennis. Everyone thinks about it from a hundred different perspectives.
“But I just try to stay with the facts and read the documents. I trust that the process has become honest at the end. That's all I do because I am not trying to judge.”
The three -month sanction of Sinner was described as “ridiculous” by the Australian Firebrand Nick Kyrgios.
“Guilty or not? Sad day for tennis. Fairness in tennis does not exist,” Kyrgios posted X on Saturday.
And triple Grand Slam winner Stan Wawrinka was a moment damn with the deal and wrote: “I no longer believe in a clean sport.”
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