Nick Kyrgios Blasts Jannik Sinner After He Shocks Tennis World by Re-hiring Coach Linked to Doping Scandal

Fitness trainer Umberto Ferrara will be working with Jannik Sinner during the US Open, where the World No.1 will aim to defend his title.

Nick Kyrgios Blasts Jannik Sinner After He Shocks Tennis World by Re-hiring Coach Linked to Doping Scandal

Jannik Sinner, Nick Kyrgios (Image via X/Jannik Sinner HQ, Jose Morgado)

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Jannik Sinner, for sure, will be bombarded with questions related to his coaching situation when he returns to tennis at the Cincinnati Masters. Because, to everyone’s surprise, the Italian ace has re-hired none other than fitness trainer, Umberto Ferrara.

Sinner fired Ferrara as well as physio Giacomo Naldi last year. Both of them were involved in Sinner’s perhaps the most controversial phase of his career.

Ferrara bought a contaminated spray from Italy and gave it to Naldi, who used it to heal a wound on his finger. During physiotherapy sessions, banned steroid clostebol entered Sinner’s body, and he ended up failing the doping test twice, in March last year.

Sinner then had to deal with all sorts of criticism when the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) revealed that the World No.1 tested positive for a banned substance. Because he did not face a lengthy suspension, he, as well as the ITIA, was slammed heavily. Critics were convinced that Sinner received ‘preferential treatment’ because of his high-profile status.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) challenged ITIA’s verdict, taking the case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), and a hearing in April was scheduled. WADA kept insisting that Sinner must receive a harsh punishment- a ban of between one and two years- because of the negligence of his team members; because this way, other players and their teams would learn to be more vigilant about what they consume and take as medicines.

But to everyone’s surprise, WADA withdrew the CAS appeal. They instead handed the 23-year-old a ban of only three months– a ‘convenient’ way to solve this case because Sinner is important to the tennis world, critics believed.

Sinner served his ban and made his comeback, only to reach three finals- winning one, losing two, against his arch-rival Carlos Alcaraz. After what happened at the French Open final, even some of his critics turned into his admirers, thanks to his displaying tennis of the highest quality.

Sinner then impressed the tennis community when he quickly moved on from the French Open heartbreak to beat Alcaraz in the Wimbledon final. The debates and discussions about the doping case started to recede, but once again, it’s in the headlines all over the world after he re-hired Ferrara. Nick Kyrgios, his staunch critic, did not waste the opportunity to censure Sinner again. He wrote on X:

He got the same doc back we have been played ladies and gentlemen.

Check out his post here:

Carlos Alcaraz shares how he managed to defeat Jannik Sinner at the French Open

Carlos Alcaraz still thinks about how he managed to make the stunning turnaround in the French Open final against Jannik Sinner. The Spaniard lost the first two sets and somehow was successful in winning the third.

Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner (2)
Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner (Image via X/Jannik Sinner HQ)

But in the fourth set, the four-time Grand Slam champion had three championship points. Sinner, at 5-3, 40-0, ended up squandering the match points, and Alcaraz, after saving those points, did not look back. He did not let his focus waver for a moment and won points at the crucial moments, ending the match in his favor in five hours and 29 minutes, which has now become the longest French Open final in the history of tennis.

The truth is that in sport, but not only in sport, you have to keep believing, believe until the end. Tennis is a long and demanding road, and you are completely alone with your thoughts. The key, during the Roland Garros final against Jannik, was this: believing that you can win the match, even in the most difficult moments, without letting yourself get down.

Carlos Alcaraz La Gazzetta dello Sport

Both Sinner and Alcaraz have pulled out of the Canadian Open. They will instead kick-start their campaign in the States at the Cincinnati Masters.

Also read: Alex de Minaur Sets Timeline to Close the Gap on Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner