Simona Halep and Nick Kyrgis against Iga Swiatek and Jannik Sinner: is their anger unjustified or not? The Romanian believes she has suffered an injustice, considering the way her case was handled compared to the events involving the Polish and the Italian.
Simona was immediately stopped after testing positive for Roxadustat, and only after the last appeal to the CAS did she see her disqualification go from four years to nine months. Her defense was in fact able to demonstrate that the positivity was linked to an involuntary contamination of the supplement.
Things went differently for Swiatek and Sinner, but we are talking about issues quite different from that of Halep. The Polish player has accepted the one-month suspension imposed by ITIA for the failed test due to the presence of a prohibited substance, namely trimetazidine. A substance present in a drug (melatonin) bought by the former WTA number 1 in Poland.
The story is even different for Sinner, who, despite having been acquitted by the Independent Tribunal of the ITIA, will still have to wait for the CAS verdict after the appeal by WADA.
“That player, I don’t want to mention the name and you know who I’m talking about, she had a three-week suspension, then she played two tournaments before receiving another…
