Jannik Sünder’s top Indian Wells absence leaves the door open for rivals | Jannik Sünder

EDuring his stay in the California desert a year ago, Giacomo Naldi allegedly grabbed his treatment bags one morning and accidentally wiped his left finger over the blade of a scalpel with which Kallussen was removed and immediately pulled blood off. Two days later, after Naldi removed the association from his finger, his colleague Umberto Ferrara suggested that he use the over -the -counter ointment trofodermine to treat his healing wound.

Naldi and Ferrara were in Indian fountains as Jannik -Sünd -Physio and fitness trainers. According to the Sinner and his team, when Naldi began to use the ointment to treat his wound and at the same time to carry out his daily treatment with sinners without gloves, and sinners carried out two doping tests in the following two weeks. These events started the greatest anti-doping case in tennis history when it was tested twice positively.

This week at Indian Wells, the first ATP Masters 1000 event of the year, the first important ATP tournament has been marked since Sinner, which in February received a three-month ban from a case-resolution agreement with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Sünner will miss four Masters 1000 events: Indian Wells, Miami, Monte Carlo and Madrid.

Sünders suspension leaves a massive hole in sports, especially this month, with the Miami being open to follow. He had been the dominant force on hard places and put together an 83:6 record from November 2023 and won the last three Grand Slam titles with two Australian openings and one US Open.

The 96 players in the Indian fountain do not think of sinners because they try to work on their goals every day. However, many will consider the opportunity before you try to measure yourself without the best player in the world.

For example, this is a clear chance for defending champion Carlos Alcaraz to show that he is ready to appear with the kind of consistency that sinners have shown since the beginning of last year. While he was steamed in the Australian Open Finale and let Melbourne, which was further from Italian than ever,, the coming months are an opportunity for No. 2, Alexander Zverev, to close the gap in the ranking.

Novak Djokovic, who is accompanied by Andy Murray in Indian Wells and received a tough draw from landing in the Alcaraz district, has an even better chance of rebuilding his ranking in the coming months and ensuring that he cannot be pulled against sinners or Alcaraz before the semi-finals of another Grand Slam tournament. For the others, such as improving younger players Jack Draper and Ben Shelton, the Masters 1000 events will give more space in the tie for deeper runs.

Although sinners are prohibited due to a violation of the anti-doping rule, he will continue to build on his legacy. Since he has a massive lead against Zverev and Alcaraz with No. 1 and he probably does not lose it until his return, Sünner was able to add an additional 12 weeks at the top, which would raise him via Gustavo Kuerten, Andy Murray and Ilie Nastase on the all-time list.

One of the few points of agreement among the countless perspectives of the sinner’s anti-doping case is that it was incredibly harmful for the game and the sport itself and the processes of the government agencies, forcing the anti-doping code, creates greater suspicion of sport itself.

Even for those who found logic in the judgment of the first instance in 2024, which Sünder did not transfer at all, Wada’s handling of the case was poor. None of the facts in the case have changed since the WADA has taken the first decision, but there is such a large gap between the initial striving for a one to two years of ban and the subsequent three-month suspension, which it ultimately offered sinners. He will return to the Italian Open in time, the largest tournament in his country. The convenience of his return date has made a terrible look.

Last year Sinner claimed that he did nothing wrong. Last week, less than two weeks after the start of his ban, he performed at a Gucci fashion show, one of his sponsors, in the front row alongside Anna Wintour, the editor-in-chief of the Vogue. Whether intended or not, that seemed to be a message. It is unlikely that he will be spent his next few months at home and confiscated by the world. While the rest of the tour continues to fight all over the world during his ban on competition all over the world, sinners can appear elsewhere.