L'affaire continue de faire parler à l'US Open. Depuis mardi, Jannik Sinner est au coeur des discussions. Le numéro 1 mondial avait été testé positif au stéroïde anabolisant Clostebol à deux reprises en mars dernier, mais a été blanchi. Novak Djokovic, en quête d'un 25e Grand Chelem à New York, a donné son avis sur la question. "Ce genre d'incidents est la raison même pour laquelle nous avons fondé la PTPA, qui défend toujours des protocoles clairs pour des approches standardisées dans ce genre de cas. Je comprends que la frustration des joueurs soit due au manque de cohérence. Si j'ai bien compris, son cas a été réglé dès l'annonce de la décision. Mais, je crois que cinq ou six mois se sont écoulés depuis que la nouvelle a été portée à sa connaissance et à celle de son équipe. Donc, il y a beaucoup de problèmes dans le système. J'espère que les instances dirigeantes de notre sport sauront tirer les leçons de cette affaire et adopter une meilleure approche pour l'avenir. Je pense qu'il faut collectivement un changement."
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00:00It's great to be back in New York. Hello everyone. It was a very nice moment obviously that I was
00:14allowed to experience by the USDA and US Open an hour ago at the Arthur Ashkidd's Day. A great
00:22tribute video and obviously some fun with hitting the targets in the end and just kind of sharing my
00:30thoughts, my emotions and experiences of reflection on what is for me I think now when I look back
00:37the greatest achievement and the greatest highlight of my career overall winning the
00:43gold for Serbia. I had some heartbreaking losses at the Olympic Games, worked very hard to try to
00:52get myself in a position to fight for gold and at 37 I thought you know I don't know could this be
00:59the last chance maybe so I had to push more than ever that I have ever done and turned out to be
01:06one of the best performances I had in years overall throughout the entire tournament and then of
01:12course in the finals against Carlos. It was a kind of a dream scenario really having my wife and
01:19children there and the entire nation watching. Just a very proud moment of experiencing the
01:27golden medal you know around my neck with a Serbian anthem and Serbian flag. Very very special
01:35and probably the most intense emotions I've ever had on a tennis court. I was saying that
01:41carrying the flag being a flag bearer for my country in opening games in 2012 in London at
01:48the Olympic Games was the best feeling I had overall in my professional career surpassed every
01:55slam that I won until I won the gold medal and that was just I think the moment of when I
02:01achieved it how I achieved it you know after years of trying and the journey that was
02:10the way it was I think makes it even more unique.
02:13The first time you came in New York is 2003 for a junior tournament. I would like to know which
02:20memories do you keep from the first time you discovered the city and how did you enjoy New York at 16 years old?
02:29I do remember that I did not play a US Open junior match outdoors. We did play indoors because it was
02:47raining so we had to travel by bus to a different facility to play so I didn't really experience the
02:56US Open at that point in time but as soon after I played my first main draw as a professional
03:06player and I had a couple of great matches and some marathon matches with Gal Monfils I remember
03:15and Mario Antic and if I'm not mistaken my first first US Open as a pro so yeah it was
03:23amazing to be part of the Grand Slam and you know play on the outside courts
03:31just very different to the stadium court and I remember the first time I played at the Ash
03:38Stadium it was overwhelming you know for a young player so it's been quite a journey
03:45I'm really grateful for everything that I experienced since then.
03:49Vinay for Inside Tennis, so since 2008 you first competed in the Olympics you came all the way to
03:572024 to win your first gold there's been a weird stat at the US Open that no man has defended the
04:03US Open title since 2008 so what do you need to do differently this year as defending champion
04:08to change the stat?
04:12Try to win the title I think for starters yeah I didn't know about that I knew that
04:21you know it was probably the case for five ten years but I didn't know it was that long so
04:29yeah I mean hopefully that changes this year I mean that's that's the goal you know the goal
04:33is always for me to try to go all the way to the finals and fight for the trophy I mean
04:40that kind of mindset or approach is no different for me this year
04:47you know people would ask me you know now that you've basically won everything with a golden
04:51medal you know what is else there to win and you know I still feel the drive you know I still
05:01have the competitive spirit I still want to make more history and enjoy myself on the tour I still
05:10hope to inspire many young people to watch tennis or play tennis those are some of the reasons why
05:18I still keep on going and Grand Slams are the pillars of our sport they're the most important
05:25historical tennis events that we have so if you don't get pumped and inspired to play your best
05:32tennis in Grand Slams it's hard to do that anyway anywhere else and US Open is a slam that holds
05:43the biggest tennis court in the world tennis stadium you know night sessions of US Open are
05:48very famous most famous in our sport and I'm going to play my first match here on Monday night
05:56so I can't wait to be under the lights the noise the energy of the stadium is just different from
06:04anything else so you know I look forward to it Howard I know that Howard Fenrich with the
06:10Associated Press wanted to ask you as a top player as a sort of statesman of the game somebody
06:18involved with the PTPA and you have big thoughts about the game I wanted to get your perspective
06:25on what happened with Janik and some players have wondered aloud whether it's a fair system
06:36whether different rules are applied to different players and wanted to ask your thoughts on that
06:42case well instances like this are the very reason why we founded PTPA the ethos of PTPA is the
06:55player is representing 100% the players rights and making sure that you can cover every possible
07:08corner there is to cover so that the player is able to not only endure on the tour but to live
07:16out of the sport and we talked about the depth of the rankings and the players that are able to live
07:24out of the sport and I think that needs to be improved so there's a lot of topics that are
07:34being talked about and being worked on from the PTPA standpoint and PTPA has not yet been
07:42I think acknowledged as much as we would like it to be acknowledged in the ecosystem
07:48many reasons why but you know I'm not going to get into that
07:54and as far as Janik's case you know
08:01as I said these kind of instances are the very reason why we founded PTPA that is always advocating
08:08for fair protocols clear protocols for standardized approaches to this kind of cases and
08:18I understand that the frustration of the of the players is there because of lack of consistency
08:30and as I understood his case was cleared the moment basically it was announced
08:37but you know I think five or six months passed since the news was brought to him and his team
08:49so yeah I mean there's a lot of issues in the system
08:55we see lack of standardized and clear protocols I can understand the sentiments of a lot of
09:04players that are questioning whether they are treated the same and hopefully the governing
09:12bodies of our sport will be able to learn from this case and have a better approach for the
09:19future I think collectively there has to be a change and I think that's obvious and many players
09:28without naming any of them I'm sure you know already who these players are have had similar
09:36or same pretty much the same cases where they haven't had the same outcome and now the question
09:42is whether it is a case of the funds whether a player can afford to pay a significant amount
09:54a significant amount of money for a law firm that would then more efficiently represent his or her
10:02case I don't know is that a case or not that's something that we really I feel like collectively
10:10have to investigate more look into into the system and understand how these cases don't happen
10:17how meaning not the case itself but how how we can standardize everything so that every player
10:23regardless of his ranking or status or profile is able to get the same kind of treatment so yeah
10:30I would say that's that's probably the overall I guess my opinion and observation of of this
10:39entire case of what we've been reading and observing and talking about the last few days
10:46One more in English. Hi Novak, Giddy from Defector Media. I was wondering at this point of your career
10:54there's not much left on your checklist tennis wise so do your matchups against specific players
10:59factor into your long-term planning for example after Wimbledon almost immediately you have this
11:04huge success against Carlos so how does that result impact your planning about hanging with
11:10these younger talents the ones you see most likely to pose a challenge in the years to come?
11:16I mean I've been around for quite a few years and different generations of players are
11:26you know kind of switching and the new players exciting players coming into the tour
11:32the new rivalries are being created which I think is important for the tour in general
11:39and these kind of rivalries that I have with Janik and Carlos in particular of course along with
11:49other other guys from the generation before like Zverev, Medvedev, Tsitsipas you know are
11:58the kind of matchups that still bring that joy of competition to me and
12:09inspire me to really on a weekly basis when I'm not competing push myself to perfect the game
12:16and to give myself an ability to be able to run for hours with them
12:24on the biggest stage of course you know the there's a big the age difference but you know
12:33that's still not I guess affecting me in a big way I feel good about myself about my game about
12:41where I am and what I have achieved in the last several years
12:44excuse me so but of course I have to be a bit more selective in my strategy of calendar and how I
12:54pick and choose events and where I want to be at my prime and play the best tennis so
13:03when it comes to that it's grand slams and representing my country that's what
13:08actually motivates me the most that's what drives me the most still
13:13um yeah and I that that that's related to the on-court I guess competition driven motivation
13:24but then I have also a lot of things off the court that that still you know run my juices and I love
13:31I love being you know part of out of the tennis store and um DTPA that we talked about is is is
13:40also something that that motivates me that I you know have been working on for many years even
13:48before it was founded and tried always to advocate for players and even before that in in the player
13:55council within the ATP structure so um I feel like it's also part of my responsibility as being
14:03somebody who has uh has a sound name and a status in sport and you know a lot of players look up
14:10you know to to me and and Feather and Nadal you know the legends of the game and and they look
14:17for some kind of guidance and they they they carefully listen to our words and and actions and
14:24they you know hope to um to get that kind of leadership as well so that's that's what I
14:32personally feel I always try to you know balance things out but you know I think that I can
14:37contribute to uh certain things in a positive way and that's that's why I'm still here.