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Physio at Centre of Jannik Sinner Doping Row 'Hurt' as World No 1 Hires Ex-Fitness Trainer
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Umberto Ferrara has returned to Jannik Sinner's staff, but the same will not happen to Giacomo Naldi, 34 years old, bra physiotherapist. He was the means of contamination from Clostebol that last year had put at risk the career of the South Tyrolean tennis player. The substance, considered doping and therefore illegal in the competitions, came from Trofodermin, medication that Naldi had received just from the athelic trainer: "I have been using …
The trainer returned to work with Jannik handed him the medicine that contaminated the South Tyrolean tennis player: "A nightmare that starts again so it hurts too much"
Jannik Sinner again surprised with another decision in his staff. The Italian will once again have the physical trainer with whom he stopped working when the polemic of the positive in clostebol came to light. Umberto Ferrara's incorporation into the team leaves in very bad place Giacomo Naldi, the physiotherapist who was accused of having used a spray containing the prohibited substance.The case of doping ended up solved as an "involuntary cont…
Suspended three months early in the year, Jannik Sinner was able to quickly forget his misadventures while brillianting on the court, with at the key a memorable final lost against Carlos Alcaraz at Roland-Garros and a capital title ripped off at the expense of the same Spaniard in Wimbledon. This to strengthen his rank as world number one. Yet, the Italian made a strange decision at the dangerous timing these days. By reintegrating in his staff…
Physio at centre of Jannik Sinner doping row 'hurt' as world No 1 hires ex-fitness trainer
Jannik Sinner’s ex physiotherapist Giacomo Naldi claims it “hurts” to see Umberto Ferrara returning to the world No 1’s team after both were previously held responsible in the Italian’s doping case. Four-time Grand Slam champion Sinner announced in a statement on Wednesday that Ferrara would return as the Italian’s fitness trainer, news that shocked many across the tennis world. The announcement came weeks after the world No 1 had sacked fitness…
Jannik Sinner, on Wednesday 23 July, announced as a surprise the return to his team of Umberto Ferrara, the athletic trainer who had followed the current number 1 of the world ranking from May 2022 until last September, when he had been removed following the infamous "Caso Clostebol" .
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