Milan, Jan. 25 (LaPresse) – Bild's harsh and unhinged attack on Jannik Sinner on the eve of the Australian Open final, coincidentally against German player Alexander Zverev. In an article on the magazine's website, no stranger to gratuitous attacks against Italy, the author writes of a Sinner ‘overwhelmed by scandal’ with ‘the shadow of doping looming over the final’. Also according to Bild, ‘the fact that Sinner is in a Grand Slam final for the second consecutive time after the US Open is a farce for many players, experts and commentators. The fact that he is allowed to play in Melbourne and defend his title is unusual: this would not happen in other sports'. It is then recalled how ‘Novak Djokovic and Nick Kyrgios were particularly critical of the approach in this doping case’. In then reconstructing the Clostebol affair, the German journalist recalls that Sinner ‘tested positive twice during the Indian Wells Masters, but the case was not made public until five months later, a week before the start of the US Open, after his acquittal’. The Bild goes on to say that it is ‘puzzling that the case was not dealt with long ago and that Sinner still manages to win in Australia as if nothing had happened’. Finally, the Bild recalls that Sinner ‘does not have to appear before the Tas in Lausanne until 16 and 17 April, when he risks a disqualification of up to two years’. Then the ‘patriotic’ hit, claiming that ‘Zverev would have been number 1 in the world a long time ago if the Sinner case had not been swept under the carpet’.
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