Tennis, a sport with such a clear hierarchy of haves and have-nots that it resembles a medieval feudal system, is once again under scrutiny for its approach to fear and favor.
Saturday, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announced that it had reached a case resolution agreement with men’s world No. 1 and three-time Grand Slam champion Jannik Sinner. Sinner will serve a three-month ban for two positive doping tests, a resolution which, its most vocal critics claim, is the latest and most egregious example of a two-tier system working in the interests of the sport’s favorites.
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Instead of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) hearing scheduled for mid-April that the
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