The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) CEO Karen Moorhouse predicts world No.1 Jannik Sinner will serve a minimum one-year ban.
Sometime after the Australian Open in February or March, a decision is expected to be finalised at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland, for Sinner's pending doping case.
The two-time Grand Slam winner was found to have contained one billionth of a gram of Clostebol, a banned substance, in his system after receiving a massage during the Indian Wells Masters 1000 event in March last year.
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In an interview with tennis365, Moorhouse broke down the situation and offered her thoughts on what will happen in the coming weeks.
"If you test positive for a banned substance, the starting point for a possible ban is four years," she said. "If it can be proven that it was not intentional, the penalty is reduced to two years. At this point, there are distinctions to be made.
"In the case of Świątek, we are talking about a contaminated product (medicine), while for Sinner there is the complication that his is a non-contaminated product, as the physiotherapist used the product in question on his finger which contained the active doping substance.
"For this, the range of the ban is one to two years. I know that WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) has said that the reason for the appeal focuses on whether the player may have liability, responding to the article which speaks of ‘no significant fault or negligence’. The independent first instance tribunal found that Sinner had no fault or negligence, having used the greatest possible care. The World Anti-Doping Agency disputes this."
Despite an independent tribunal held last year, WADA appealed the decision to the CAS in the hope of a one to two-year ban.
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