Yahoo Sports · May 10, 2025
Three-time champion Swiatek falls in Italian Open third round
ROME (AP) — Top-ranked Jannik Sinner returns from his three-month doping ban against 99th-ranked Mariano Navone before his home crowd at the Italian Open on Saturday.
It's Sinner’s first match since January, when he won his third Grand Slam title at the Australian Open.
In February, Sinner settled with the World Anti-Doping Agency on a ban that raised some questions, since it conveniently allowed him not to miss any Grand Slams and come back at his home tournament.
The agreement was made after WADA appealed a decision last year by the International Tennis Integrity Agency to fully exonerate Sinner for what it deemed to be an accidental contamination by a banned anabolic steroid in March 2024.