{"id":417726,"date":"2026-01-16T21:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/417726\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T21:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:36:12","slug":"australian-open-2026-jannik-sinner-press-conference-doping-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/417726\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open 2026 | Jannik Sinner press conference, doping case"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jannik Sinner<\/a> has opened up on his “difficult” 2025 Australian Open<\/a> after he came into the tournament under a doping cloud.<\/p>\n

Sinner had tested positive to Clostebol in 2024 and in February after the Open, a case resolution was announced with WADA which led to a three-month suspension.<\/p>\n

The genesis of that suspension was the fact he’d been found to have no fault or negilegence<\/a> due to the positive test coming from a spray used by his masseuse.<\/p>\n

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Jannik Sinner. \u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Speaking ahead of his title defence, Sinner explained he was carrying the weight of the unknown last year.<\/p>\n

“It was definitely a much more difficult situation because in this moment last year I didn’t know exactly what’s going to happen,” he said.<\/p>\n

“So I tried to enjoy it still when you go out on the court but you still have it in your head kind of.<\/p>\n

“It was difficult. Now it’s tough to say because, you know, I know the ending, you know? I knew the kind of ending, I knew what was coming out. In the same time it was difficult for me, but also for the family. I tried to stay with the people I really love, which at times worked very well.”<\/p>\n

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Sinner and decision makers copped criticism in the wake of the suspension with Novak Djokovic making claims that the majority of players felt there was “favouritism” happening<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nick Kyrgios had described the deal with WADA as a “sad day for tennis”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sinner also said last year he had considered quitting tennis<\/a> during the tournament and claimed “players were looking at me differently”. <\/p>\n

While Sinner wasn’t specifically asked about any external comments during the process, he did admit there were times of disappointment. <\/p>\n

“But it is what it is, right? After that, I think everything happens for a reason. It got me even stronger as a person,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It doesn’t take away the player’s part. The person I’ve become, it’s much more mature in a way because I see things in different ways when they’re not going in the right direction.<\/p>\n

“I surrounded myself with really, really good people. I’m very happy with the people I have. So that for me is the most important [thing]. Whatever comes on court, the result-wise, that’s all an extra. I live the sport also in a very different way now, which is relaxed, but I give everything I have. It’s a balance of everything. I’m very happy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner has opened up on his “difficult” 2025 Australian Open after he came into the tournament under…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-417726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}