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PTPA filed a long document which offers some interesting detail about the world of tennis but also some strange stuff: Everybody with a passing knowledge of the case should have know that ITIA, after their thorough investigation - corroborated by the WADA's even more detailed one - accepted...

Article Novak Djokovic on Monday urged tennis authorities to overhaul the sport's anti-doping system, pointing to "inconsistencies" in cases involving top stars Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek and those of lower-ranked players. World number one Sinner agreed to a three-month ban on Saturday...

The "unique sets of facts of this case" have set alight a fuse running to a bomb under WADA, risking the exposure of their inner fallibility to both demand strict liability and using no threshold to protect the innocent against false accusations. By offering Sinner a resolution of a short ban...

Martina slams the decision of WADA to appeal the ‘no negligence’ part of ITIA’s ruling based on expert opinion. Contrary to the (ex-)players of Nasty&Company she shows an understanding of the issue, indicating a careful reading of the evidence. Contrast that to the intellectual depth of a former...

In the context of the cases of Sinner and then Swiatek, some members and I, tried to explain here a very simple logic; performing more of much more sensitive tests will result in a much larger amount of ‘false positives’, in the form on insignificant contaminations. Nice to see the boss of WADA...

Here is the update by the Taskforce created in 2023, likely caused by increasing case numbers of unintentional doping: A good explanation by one of the members:

Interesting developments, to say the least. We all make mistakes so I wish him and Matteo the best but such an appointment would raise a number of intriguing points, but I focus on one: If CAS doesn't fully exonerate Sinner from negligence - we are obviously not talking about doping - we could...

This is an unofficial poll on the possible suspension upon WADA's appeal, you can vote anonymously. This is not a thread to discuss his case, there are countless other threads where you can argue in details, for this one, keep it short or just vote!

Novak's comments in full: I agree with him. WADA's appeal is just a face-saving strategy to make it look like a precedent is being set for this subjective 'negligence' clause in their rulebook which is already flawed and inconsistently applied. It's obvious to literally anyone except...

American dubs between the big 3. Best of 5 maybe? 2 v 1 rotating. Etc etc Who would win on score? Who would win morally? I think Fed would destroy them, and prove that he is actual and moral superior of the 3.

If the ATP released little action figurines of the players would you buy them? Wonder what the best seller would be. And which figure no one would want to buy, and would end up in the discount bin for $1.99. That'd be the Bautista Agut figurine probably