considered leaving tennis entirely earlier this year before he accepted a three-month ban in a settlement with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
When asked during an interview if he ever thought about quitting, Sinner said, ‘Yes.’
“I remember before the Australian Open, it wasn’t a very happy time. I didn’t feel comfortable in the locker room. Players were looking at me differently. I said to myself, ‘Ma ybe I need to take some time off.’ I didn’t want [the ban] though,” said Sinner, who won his second straight title in January.
However, it wasn’t until February that the settlement was made in the doping case, 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.