Quote from: AHOYBRAUSE on July 13, 2025, 07:15:33 PM

Quote from: coinlocket$ on July 13, 2025, 06:27:39 PM

Game dominated by Sinner.
After the forced break of few months he already got 2 finals in slams.

1 lost in Rollan Garros and one won today in Wimbledon.

Sinner vs Alcaraz will be probably the fight of the next five years like it was Nadal vs Federer.

Yeah these 2 are deemed to play many finals against each other, if I like it or not. I don't like both, just because of their demeanor. But I definitely like Sinner less after that farce of a suspension he got after they found him having used some banned substance. Still so ridiculous how short of a ban he got, any player that is not number one or outside of the top 50 or whatever would have gotten at least 1 year, if not 2. So sad to see but I guess that's the business.

We have been discussing this here before and I think it is not the problem that he got a short ban, but that others get long bans more or less no question asked.

They have made this decision now, but apparently this will now be seen as a precedent for all the cases in the future and I am speculating whether they have done themselves a favor. If next time a pro player presents them with an unbelievable story, how would they justify if they don't believe it and how would they weight one story less or more than the other?

Claiming that the therapist used anti-inflammatory ointment and then massaged the world number one is hard to believe, but they did it and sometimes I think if they could have kept it secret without anyone ever find out about it, they would have done it. Now everyone is waiting for the number fifty to get caught and what then? Grin