‘that Cloud Will Follow Him’: Djokovic Warning To Sinner Over Doping Ban

Novak Djokovic has warned Jannik Sinner that his three-month doping ban will bent complete him for illustration a “cloud” – and questioned nan timing of nan punishment past year.

Sinner served a three-month prohibition successful February 2025 aft nan World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) accepted his mentation that a banned anabolic steroid, clostebol, entered his strategy accidentally.

In an question and reply connected Piers Morgan: Uncensored connected YouTube, Djokovic said: “That unreality will travel him conscionable arsenic nan unreality of Covid will travel me, for nan remainder of his, aliases my profession successful this case.

“It’s conscionable thing that, it was truthful major, and erstwhile that happens, complete clip it will fade, but I don’t deliberation it will disappear. There’s ever going to beryllium a definite group of group that will ever effort to bring that forward.”

Djokovic said he believed that Sinner, a regular believe partner, “didn’t do it connected purpose”, but he went connected to mobility really nan Italian managed to service his clip without missing a expansive slam.

“There is nan deficiency of transparency, nan inconsistency, nan convenience [of] nan prohibition coming, betwixt nan slams, truthful he doesn’t miss retired nan others – it’s just, it was very, very odd,” added Djokovic.

“I really don’t for illustration really nan lawsuit was being handled and you could perceive so galore different players, some antheral and female, who had immoderate akin situations coming retired successful nan media, and complaining that it was a preferable treatment.”