Novak Djokovic Reaction to Sinner Suspension - Doha 2025

I've seen the news and particularly the two cases of Iga Sviatic and Jannik Stiner have attracted a lot of attention and it's not a good image for our sport that's for sure. There's a consensus or I would say a majority of the players that I've talked to in the locker room not just in the last few days but but also last few months that are not happy with the way this whole process has been handled. Majority of the players doesn't feel that it's fair. Majority of the players feel like there is favorism happening. It seems like it appears that you can almost affect the outcome if you're a top player if have access to the top lawyers and whatnot. Sviatic and Stiner are innocent and it's proven unless it's proven otherwise. So right now we know they're innocent and Stiner's got suspension for three months because of the mistakes and the negligence of his team members that are working on the tour. So that's also something that I personally and a lot of players find a bit strange that you know also the fact that there's so much inconsistencies between the cases. So we've seen on the social media Simona Halep and Tara Moore and some other players that are maybe less known that have been struggling to resolve their cases for years or have gotten the ban for years. And I think you know right now it's a ripe time for us to really address the system because the system and the structure obviously doesn't work of anti-doping. It's obvious. So I hope that in the next period of the near future that the governing bodies are going to come together of our tours and the tennis ecosystem and try to find a more effective way to deal with these processes. We have to choose. The inconsistency is something that frustrates all the players. It's like if you are going to treat every case individually or independently which is what's happening then there is no consistency, then there is no transparency. And you know some cases are transparent, some are not. We know that you know there's a kind of a vague rule that I read that you know it's within a reasonable time you have to provide information where you've got contaminated substance. And he provided it in this as I understand six hour window but it's not it doesn't say in the rules it's a six hour. It's a reasonable time. So what's the reasonable time? You know obviously sometimes you know in one case you can have a larger contamination, sometimes in some cases you have a smaller one like in his case. But the problem is that you know right now there is a lack of trust generally from the tennis players both man and female towards VADA and ITIA in the whole process. So we either going to agree that all the cases will be transparent from the beginning or all will be kept private until the result. I have no opinion of that right now. I think it's important to open the discussion and then let's see what's best for the sport.