Djokovic Rips Tennis' Anti-Doping System as 'Unjust and Broken' After Sinner Sanction

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00:00It's not a good image for our sport, that's for sure.

00:15There's a consensus or I would say a majority of the players that I've talked to in the

00:21locker room, not just in the last few days but also last few months, that are not happy

00:30with the way this whole process has been handled.

00:37Majority of the players doesn't feel that it's fair.

00:41Majority of the players feel like there is favorism happening.

00:44It seems like it appears that you can almost affect the outcome if you are a top player,

00:51if you have access to the top lawyers and what not.

00:56So we've seen on the social media Simona Halep and Tara Moore and some other players that

01:02are maybe less known that have been struggling to resolve their cases for years or have gotten

01:10the ban for years.

01:11I think right now it's a ripe time for us to really address the system because the system

01:20and the structure obviously doesn't work of anti-doping.

01:23It's obvious.

01:25So I hope that in the next period of the near future that the governing bodies are going

01:34to come together of our tours and the tennis ecosystem and try to find a more effective

01:41way to deal with these processes.

01:46So yeah, it's inconsistent and it appears to be very unfair.

01:56The inconsistency is something that frustrates all the players.

02:00If you are going to treat every case individually or independently, which is what's happening,

02:07then there is no consistency, then there is no transparency.

02:11Some cases are transparent, some are not.

02:14We know that there is a kind of a vague rule that I read that within a reasonable time

02:21you have to provide information where you got contaminated substance.

02:26He provided it in this, as I understand, six-hour window, but it doesn't say in the rules it's

02:31a six-hour.

02:32It's a reasonable time.

02:35So what's the reasonable time?

02:37Obviously sometimes in one case you can have a larger contamination.

02:43In some cases you have a smaller one, like in his case.

02:47The problem is that right now there is a lack of trust, generally, from the tennis players,

02:55both male and female, towards VADA and ITIA and the whole process.

03:00So we are either going to agree that all the cases will be transparent from the beginning

03:04or all will be kept private until they're resolved.