Tennis-Sinner grateful for Draper friendship during doping ban


  • Tennis
  • Tuesday, 13 May 2025

Tennis - Italian Open - Foro Italico, Rome, Italy - May 12, 2025 Italy's Jannik Sinner in action during his round of 32 match against Netherlands' Jesper De Jong REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel

(Reuters) - World number one Jannik Sinner said the support and friendship he received from Jack Draper during his three-month ban for a doping violation gave him the positive energy he needed to make it through a difficult period.

Sinner accepted the ban following a settlement with the World Anti-Doping Agency in February after authorities agreed that the anabolic agent clostebol inadvertently entered his system through massages from his physiotherapist.

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