🔗 Share this article Novak Djokovic Delivers Warning to Jannik Sinner: Suspension Will Follow Him Like a "Shadow" The tennis star has warned Jannik Sinner that his three-month doping suspension will persist over his career like a "cloud" – and raised doubts about the timing of the sanction in the previous season. The Ban Explained The Italian player served a three-month suspension in early 2025 after the World Anti-Doping Agency approved his account that a prohibited performance-enhancing substance, the steroid clostebol, had entered his system accidentally. "That cloud will follow him just as the cloud of Covid will follow me, for the rest of his, or my career," Djokovic stated in a discussion on Piers Morgan: Uncensored. "It is a situation where, it was so major, and when that happens, with time it may lessen, but I don't think it will disappear. There's always going to be a certain group of people that will continually reference the incident." Djokovic's Perspective The Serbian player stated that Sinner, a regular practice partner, "had no intentional involvement", but he then scrutinized how the player arranged to complete his ban without missing a grand slam. "There is the lack of transparency, the inconsistency, the convenience [of] the ban occurring between major events, so he doesn't miss out the others – it's just it was very, very odd," Djokovic added. Broader Tennis Community Response "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 asserting it represented favorable handling."