🔗 Share this article Novak Djokovic Issues Warning to Jannik Sinner: Doping Ban Will Follow Him Like a "Cloud" The tennis star has warned Jannik Sinner that his three-month ban for doping will persist over his career like a "cloud" – while also questioning the timing of the sanction in the previous season. The Ban Explained Sinner completed a three-month prohibition in February 2025 after the World Anti-Doping Agency approved his account that a prohibited performance-enhancing substance, clostebol, had been ingested unintentionally. "That cloud will follow him just as the Covid controversy will follow me, for the rest of his, or my career," Djokovic stated in an interview on Piers Morgan: Uncensored. "It's just something that, it was so significant, and when that happens, with time it may lessen, but I don't think it will disappear. There will inevitably exist a certain group of people that will continually reference the incident." Djokovic's Perspective Djokovic expressed belief 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 irregularity, the convenience [of] the ban coming between the slams, so he avoids skipping important competitions – it's just it was very, very odd," he further commented. Wider Player Reactions "I am dissatisfied with how the situation was managed and you could hear so many other players, across both tours, who had some similar situations voicing their concerns publicly and asserting it represented favorable handling."