"Often superficial and rarely based on concrete facts": Jannik Sinner's ex-physio breaks silence amid doping scandal sacking

Confirmed to have lost his job amid the doping scandal, Jannik Sinner's ex physio Giacomo Naldi has broken his silence to slam the backlash he has received.

Naldi was at the centre of the doping scandal. He was the physio who was taking Clostebol for a wound on his finger which was later rubbed onto the World No.1.

Sinner bore no fault or negligence but Naldi alongside Sinner's fitness coach were recently disposed of their roles and he accused people of destroying his reputation.

"It is true that there are two paths to justice: the real one sanctioned by the Courts and the one (unfortunately more effective) sanctioned by the media. The latter is too often superficial and rarely based on concrete facts, which in this case, moreover, are public," Naldi wrote on Instagram.

"As a spectator I have always wondered what the objective of spectacular legal cases, if not to judge, create or destroy people and their reputations. Today that I have confirmed that I am the star of it!" he added.

But he also took time to laud Sinner and the team he worked with in a thank you message about his past period working with Sinner.

"A year and a half ago I joined a fantastic work group, made up of good people, great professionals, travel companions. With them I experienced moments of joy and pain, shared emotions, savored victories and defeats. With the people of this group, I created a strong bond, but above all I was able to achieve historic goals, which took us into the history of Italian tennis," he wrote on Instagram.

"I am proud to have been part of this great team, aware of having given my best, of having been 100% professional but also of having given more, because when you put your heart into it, it is certain that you give more. It hurts to think of not being part of it anymore, it's hard not to be in the stands with you and cheering for Jannik, but I'll have to get used to it quickly," he added.

"Thanks Vagno, Darren, Umbe, Cipo, it was a beautiful journey, an unforgettable story," he said. "Thanks also to Alex, Joseph, Larry Pierre, Ruben and all the important people from the team."