“Likewise doesn’t work” · tennisnet.com

Thomas Muster has commented on the Jannik Sinner case – he believes his story is plausible, but still advocates equal treatment.

Jannik Sinner is currently waiting for a hearing on his doping history – WADA had lodged a complaint against the ITIA’s decision.

Sinner had tested positive for Clostebol twice in March of this year; his explanation that the drug had been transferred through a massage from the physiotherapist was believed. Sinner thus avoided a ban.

“A difficult topic,” says Austria’s tennis legend Thomas Muster. “I would never accuse him of having acted intentionally.” “I wasn’t there, his interpretation sounds plausible,” he said in a conversation with The standard. “The other story is: If you let these things pass, you open the door. Where do we start? Where do we stop? Where are limits reached? Where not?”

He is so sorry for “the likeable player sinner” – similar things happened to others and they were banned. “Likewise doesn’t work. There has to be zero tolerance, otherwise you have to legalize doping straight away. That wouldn’t make sense.”

Sample auction: 150,000 euros for the Roland Garros Cup?

Muster is currently in focus at the Erste Bank Open in Vienna. The town hall tournament is turning 50, and the Official Tennis Experience will also take place in this context, where you can marvel at trophies from Muster. Some of them are to be auctioned off in aid of Licht ins Dunkel via the Ö3 Christmas Miracle.

“Memories are something personal that I can take with me to my grave anyway,” says Muster. He had had the trophies with him long enough, in the end the question was what the family wanted to do with them. His successes would be in the history books anyway.

Muster does not have a concrete idea of ​​how much could come out of the auction. “But I know that Grand Slam trophies normally cost around 150,000 euros.” Internationally. There are tennis fans who own companies and are available for such actions. You have reserved money, then display the first trophy in your company in a beautiful display case.

In addition to the trophy for the French Open victory, the trophy for the victory in Key Biscayne is particularly important for Muster. In 1989 he was unable to play in the final after a drunk driver hit him the night before. He received the trophy for second place in the mail. “The war broke. A broken knee and a broken trophy that was sent back, that can’t actually be true.” With the victory in 1997, his last tournament victory ever, everything came full circle. And: “By the way, this trophy is complete.”

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