Tennis Star Jannik Sinner has been in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons lately. The current number 1 male tennis player in the world faced the possibility of being suspended for upcoming tournaments. It might sound like nothing, but these tournaments are their way to make money!
Tennis players participate in different tournaments yearly to earn points and stay in their rankings. They might get some money for those tournaments, but the most comes from the most popular tennis tournaments such as grand slams! Here the prize pot can be more than 100.000$
Why Did Sinner Get Suspended?
To prevent cheating within the sport, the players must follow rules during the games, but also off the courts. These things get checked regularly and will be enforced by the governing bodies of the tennis competitions. To prevent the accidental use of forbidden drugs, there are certain medicines that players are not allowed to use. To check if players have used any of these drugs in the past few days, they perform blood tests!
After his most recent win at a tournament, Jannik Sinner tested positive for one of the forbidden drugs! However, he claimed he never used any drugs so an official investigation was launched. This was a thorough investigation of him and his team, with which they cooperated!
How did Jannik Avoid the suspension?
Even though Jannik Sinner had two drug tests confirming that there were forbidden drugs in his system, the suspension was lifted! A thorough investigation discovered that one of his employees had used one of these forbidden medication sprays to treat a wound on their hand. However, this person massaged Jannik daily, which contaminated the player with this medicine, resulting in positive tests!
Since Jannik didn’t intentionally take the drugs and because he cooperated with the investigations, his suspension was lifted. However, during this period, he did lose out on the 325.000$ and 400 ranking points. This was fair according to the player, who is happy to keep his status as the Number One Player in the world!
