🔗 Share this article Novak Djokovic Issues Warning to Jannik Sinner: Doping Ban Will Hang Over Him Like a "Shadow" The tennis star has warned Jannik Sinner that his three-month ban for doping will persist over his career as a constant shadow – while also questioning the timing of the penalty last year. Details of the Suspension Sinner completed a three-month suspension in early 2025 after the global anti-doping body approved his account that a prohibited performance-enhancing substance, clostebol, had entered his system accidentally. "This shadow will trail him just as the Covid controversy will follow me, for the remainder of our respective careers," the champion remarked in a discussion on Piers Morgan: Uncensored. "It is a situation where, it was so significant, and after such events, with time it may lessen, but I don't think it will disappear. There will inevitably exist a specific segment of individuals that will always try to bring that forward." Djokovic's Perspective The Serbian player stated that Sinner, his frequent training companion, "didn't do it on purpose", but he then scrutinized how the player arranged to serve his time without sitting out any major tournaments. "There is the lack of transparency, the irregularity, the convenience [of] the ban occurring between major events, so he avoids skipping important competitions – it's just it was very, very odd," Djokovic added. Wider Player Reactions "I really don't like how the situation was managed and you could hear so many other players, across both tours, who had some similar situations coming out in the media and complaining that it was a preferable treatment."