Volandri responds to Pellegrini on the Sinner case: "She showed she understood nothing about this story"

Sinner arrived in Rome and completed his first training session under the watch of the Italian public. Suspended since last February, the world number one faced a wave of criticism during this period.

For former player Filippo Volandri, most of the accusations against the 23-year-old player were unfounded and made by people incompetent on the matter:

"Out of this whole story, I particularly appreciated those who said they wouldn’t speak because they lacked the expertise or information to do so. When I hear people judging, like Federica Pellegrini for example, I assume she must have a law degree that we didn’t know about, or maybe she’s a licensed attorney. She claims to have read the documents. But even if she did read them, she showed she understood nothing about this story. When she even tries to form sentences, it makes me turn up my nose.

Either you’re competent and then you have every right to give an opinion, or you’re not competent—and in that case, I appreciate those who admitted it and didn’t expose themselves. I don’t see any disparity in the handling compared to other cases, because every case is different in the end. It makes no sense to talk about unequal treatment.

In Sinner’s case, within less than 48 hours, a series of documented actions proving his innocence were certified. So when I hear about suspension, I wonder: suspended from what? In other cases, it took months to determine the source of contamination, but that wasn’t the case here.

At that point, when you quickly find out what happened and everything is clear, I don’t understand why Jannik should have been suspended," he said in an interview with Fanpage.