00:00So, Paneet, obviously, on the back of the 2024 US Open, Yannick Sinner coming away with
00:07his second slam of the year. Just on the US Open, what were your thoughts of it? Obviously,
00:13a fantastic tournament. We had quite a bit of drama as well throughout it. Sinner comes
00:18away with the win. How impressed were you by his performances at the event?
00:22I mean, I felt Sinner was really clinical. He looked like he was just on a different
00:28level in every match that he played. It never felt that he was, you know, at any risk of
00:33losing any of the matches. I think his draw was quite favourable, to be honest, but I
00:38think that he didn't even have to go to that next level. He didn't really have to even
00:42play hard. He made it look so easy. And I think the final, it was, you know, it wasn't
00:48an exciting final, but it really showcased how amazing Sinner is in all aspects of his
00:54game now, and especially mentally as well. Like, had all the crowd, got going eventually,
01:01and you know, he was serving. You know, Sinner just stayed really cool, broke him back so
01:05easily and then just finished the job in three sets. So, didn't even get to a tiebreak, didn't
01:10really have to break a sweat. So, yeah, really, really impressive.
01:14And there was obviously quite a lot of controversy across social media as well, people picking
01:19out the sort of failed drugs test. What was your sort of take on that? Obviously, you
01:24know, Novak Djokovic suffered a few seasons ago with him not being able to compete in
01:29certain events. And then, you know, it's maybe seen as a bit unfair, if you look back at
01:35that, with Sinner's failed drugs test, and then he's allowed to compete and he ends up
01:40winning and, you know, it's quite a strange situation in the tennis world at the moment.
01:45I mean, it is really strange. And I think there was a tweet from Matt Letizia yesterday,
01:50and he basically hit the nail on the head and said, Novak Djokovic was banned from playing
01:54in the US Open for not taking, you know, a trial drug. And Sinner has failed two doping
02:01tests this year and he's playing. And we know that, you know, other players have not been
02:07able to get away with it so easily. You know, there was, there has been a cover up, and
02:11the authorities have kind of hushed it up a little bit. It's not been clear. And I think
02:16even the similar cases of people who have been through the Sinner kind of scenario,
02:21if you look at their reports, they're heavily redacted. It's, it all smacks of something
02:26and it's not right. I don't think there was transparency. I think Sinner got away with
02:30it. I think he had lawyers to pay his way out. And I'm just shocked that nobody knew
02:36about this until throughout the US Open. But I don't think it's fair for other tennis players
02:42especially lower ranked players who really depend on tennis for, you know, their income.
02:46I'm not protecting people who failed doping tests, other people, but everybody needs to
02:51be treated fairly and it needs to be transparent. And I think the transparency hasn't been there.
02:57And there is a lot of question marks over Yannick Sinner.
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