{"id":29210,"date":"2025-04-18T03:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T03:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/29210\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T03:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T03:31:07","slug":"banned-jannik-sinner-helped-out-by-jack-draper-as-italian-spotted-back-on-tennis-court-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/29210\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Jannik Sinner helped out by Jack Draper as Italian spotted back on tennis court | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jannik Sinner<\/a> has been spotted back on a practice court as he ramps up his preparations to return from his ban. The world No. 1 accepted a three-month suspension as part of a case-resolution agreement with the World Anti-Doping Agency in February and will make his comeback at next month\u2019s Italian Open.<\/p>\n

As part of his suspension, Sinner was allowed to return to \u201cofficial training activity\u201d on April 13<\/a>. Previously, he was not able to use public tennis courts or gyms, and couldn\u2019t hit with fellow professional players. But he returned to practice on the clay this week, with British No. 1 Jack Draper<\/a> helping out as a sparring partner.<\/p>\n

Sinner\u2019s three-month suspension will be lifted on May 4 but, as of this week, he has been able to return to practice.<\/p>\n

Until now, the Italian had been severely limited and could only use private gym facilities and practice at private tennis courts with sparring partners who are not professionally registered.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old resides in Monaco and, when he was permitted to resume official training activity, he headed to the Monte-Carlo Country Club – the venue which hosted last week\u2019s Monte-Carlo Masters.<\/p>\n

Sinner reportedly sparred with his countryman Matteo Berrettini earlier this week. While there was no footage of their practice session, the world No. 1 was spotted entering the club from the street.<\/p>\n

But the three-time Grand Slam champion has now finally been seen on an official tennis court, as he enlisted Draper as his latest practice partner in nearby Beaulieu-sur-Mer.<\/p>\n

The official social media accounts for the ITF Junior tournament staged at the Tennis Club de Beaulieu shared footage of Sinner hitting with the world No. 6 on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook who\u2019s here!\u201d they wrote over a video of Sinner and Draper in the middle of a rally. The Italian also took the time to record a video messages for the junior players competing at the ITF event.<\/p>\n

\u201cHello everyone, I wish all the players here in the ITF Beaulieu best of luck, enjoy the semis tomorrow,\u201d he said to the camera.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no surprise Draper decided to help Sinner out and join him for a training session this week. The pair have a great relationship on and off the court – they have played doubles together, and Sinner even taught the Brit how to cook pasta.<\/p>\n

The Indian Wells champion also publicly defended Sinner during his doping saga. When the Italian accepted a three-month suspension, Draper told Sky Sports: \u201cJannik is a good friend and I know that with this whole thing, I am sure he wouldn\u2019t have done anything intentionally.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut obviously, that\u2019s the sport and we have to be accountable for what\u2019s going in our bodies. He is obviously banned now for few months. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s good for tennis<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s good for sport that the No. 1 player in the world and someone who is doing incredible things is having a ban but you know he will be back shortly and I wish him all the best. I hope he is going to be okay.\u201d<\/p>\n

Draper reached the round of 16<\/a> at the recent Monte-Carlo Masters, losing a tight three-setter to Alejandro Davidovich Fokina<\/a>. He will be back in action at next week\u2019s Masters 1000 in Madrid. As for Sinner, the 23-year-old will return to competition in Rome next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner has been spotted back on a practice court as he ramps up his preparations to return…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[5005,4718,79,1068,5838,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-29210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-jack-draper","9":"tag-jannik-sinner","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-tennis-news","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114356858838482599","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}