The Laureus Academy revoked tennis number one Jannik Sinner's nomination for its annual World Sportsman of the Year Award on Thursday, citing his three-month doping ban. Sinner, who accepted the ban earlier this month,

I went down the rabbit hole and found this, a Wimbledon final won by default. The great Weller Evans recalled the 1969 U.S. Open between Rod Laver and Tony Roche. Owing to rain, the match was played on a Tuesday and even then, they used a helicopter to dry the grass court. Laver won (consecrating his second Grand Slam) while wearing track spikes.

In this long period, Jannik has grown a lot as a person and has understood who his true friends are. Many players have harshly attacked him and claimed that he was treated differently from others, while other tennis players such as Matteo Berrettini and Casper Ruud have always defended him.

The Laureus World Sports Academy has announced that world number one Italian tennis player Jannik Sinner has been excluded from the Sportsman of the Year nomination this year due to his doping case.

Jannik Sinner has accepted a three-month ban from tennis to settle a case which has lingered over the sport for months after he twice tested positive for a banned substance, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announced on Saturday.

Tennis faces a new crisis of perception despite following its own rules on integrity. The two-tiered resentment is not going to fade away.

Last Saturday, it was announced that the world's best player, Jannik Sinner, had negotiated a settlement with the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) over offences committed last March, and would be banned for just three months.

The nomination of Jannik Sinner for the Laureus sportsman of the year award was withdrawn Thursday due to the top-ranked tennis player's three-month ban for his two positive doping tests nearly a year ago.