The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has banned World No. 1 Jannik Sinner from competing for a three-month period.
Shockwaves were sent through the tennis world as it was announced that WADA had reached an agreement with Sinner to drop their appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), in return for the Italian being banned from professional tennis until May.
The settlement comes prior to the hearing of WADA’s appeal of the International Tennis Integrity Agency’s (ITIA) ruling to the CAS in April, with a one or two-year ban highly likely – should the appeal have been successful.
As a result, the appeal has now been dropped, but the 2025 Australian Open champion cannot compete professionally until May 5th, just before the Italian Open in Rome.