🔗 Share this article Djokovic Issues Caution to Jannik Sinner: Suspension Will Hang Over Him Like a "Cloud" Novak Djokovic has cautioned 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 last year. Details of the Suspension The Italian player served a three-month suspension in early 2025 after the World Anti-Doping Agency accepted his explanation that a prohibited performance-enhancing substance, the steroid clostebol, had been ingested unintentionally. "That cloud will follow him just as the Covid controversy will follow me, for the remainder of our respective careers," the champion remarked in an interview on Piers Morgan: Uncensored. "It is a situation where, it was so major, and after such events, over time it will fade, but I don't think it will disappear. There will inevitably exist a certain group of people that will always try to bring that forward." Djokovic's Perspective Djokovic expressed belief that Sinner, his frequent training companion, "had no intentional involvement", but he then scrutinized how the Italian managed to complete his ban without missing a grand slam. "The absence of openness, the inconsistency, the convenience [of] the ban occurring between major events, so he doesn't miss out the others – it simply appeared highly unusual," he further commented. Wider Player Reactions "I really don't like how the case was being handled and it was evident numerous fellow athletes, both male and female, who had comparable circumstances coming out in the media and complaining that it was a preferable treatment."