Jannik Sinner is trying to resume training at the US Open and put the storm of his positive doping test and subsequent acquittal by the Itia behind him.
Today, the world number 1 announced that he has ended his professional relationship with Umberto Ferrara and Giacomo Naldi: they are the trainer and the physiotherapist who inadvertently contaminated him with Clostebol , the doping substance with which he came into contact after a massage.
"It's certainly not the ideal eve for a Slam, but I know I didn't do anything wrong, " he said. "I've already played with this in my head and it didn't go badly. It's a relief to have been acquitted, I'll try to do my best in this tournament ." And again: "It was a long process, I had to deal with it for months. I had to make difficult decisions based on the outcome. There are dates that you have to respect during the process, you can't decide when the news comes out and when it doesn't. Happy that it's over, it's a relief for me and my team."
In New York with him there are only his two coaches, Darren Cahill and Simone Vagnozzi, who encouraged him during the exchanges on the court also with a conspicuous hug that did not go unnoticed by the media. Of course, it is not easy for Sinner to resist such strong psychological pressure. The decision not to continue with Ferrara and Naldi was inevitable in many ways and matured after the acquittal for the positive Clostebol that would have been caused by accidental contact with Trofodermin, the spray containing the prohibited substance purchased by Ferrara in Bologna in February and used by Naldi for a wound on his finger before massaging Jannik during the Indian Wells tournament .
There are the rules of the World Tennis Anti-Doping Agency at the basis of the "dismissal" of Naldi and Ferrara: they can no longer work with Sinner, they have not appeared in his staff's box for weeks to the point that their absence was announced at the US Open. And three days before the start of the first round, it emerges from world tennis sources that the relationship with the two is definitively interrupted, as requested by the Itia.
In the meantime, the Italian tennis player trained at Flushing Meadows with another Italian, Lorenzo Musetti, to try out the fast surface of the US tournament but perhaps also to find on the court that tranquility that risks being lacking outside.
(Unioneonline/D)