{"id":31483,"date":"2025-07-23T15:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/31483\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T15:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:18:11","slug":"jannik-sinner-reappoints-former-fitness-coach-umberto-ferrara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/31483\/","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner reappoints former fitness coach Umberto Ferrara"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jul 23, 2025, 06:14 AM ET<\/p>\n

Wimbledon champion Jannik Sinner<\/a> has rehired Umberto Ferrara as his fitness coach nearly a year after firing him for his role in the top-ranked player’s doping case.<\/p>\n

Sinner parted ways with Ferrara and physiotherapist Giacomo Naldi last year following the investigation into his positive tests for banned substance Clostebol in March.<\/p>\n

The reunion comes after Sinner recently removed fitness coach Marco Panichi and physiotherapist Ulises Badio from his team.<\/p>\n

“The decision has been made in alignment with Jannik’s management team as part of ongoing preparations for upcoming tournaments, including the Cincinnati Open and U.S. Open,” Sinner’s team said in a statement. “Umberto has played an important role in Jannik’s development to date, and his return reflects a renewed focus on continuity and performance at the highest level.”<\/p>\n

Sinner received a three-month ban in February in an agreement with the World Anti-Doping Agency. WADA had appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against an independent tribunal’s decision in August to clear Sinner of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

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Sinner, who returned to action in May and lost to Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> in the French Open final before beating him to win Wimbledon, said Clostebol, which can build muscle mass, entered his system after Naldi applied an over-the-counter spray to a cut on his own hand before carrying out treatments on Sinner.<\/p>\n

The spray had been given to Naldi by Ferrara.<\/p>\n

Sinner was cleared of fault or negligence by the independent tribunal, which accepted that he had inadvertently been contaminated with the substance.<\/p>\n

Speaking at last year’s US Open, Sinner explained his decision to part ways with Ferrara and Naldi, saying he was “not feeling that confident to continue with them.”<\/p>\n

Ferrara, who had laid the blame for the incident on Naldi, worked with Matteo Berrettini<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n

Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 23, 2025, 06:14 AM ET Wimbledon champion Jannik Sinner has rehired Umberto Ferrara as his fitness coach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-31483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}