Roland-Garros 2025: after the Sinner and Swiatek cases, the psychosis of contamination

It's a psychosis that doesn't speak its name. It has taken hold on the courts, in the locker rooms, and even in the hotel rooms of tournaments at the end of last season. Its starting point is the positive tests for doping products of Iga Swiatek and Jannik Sinner , caused by accidental contamination – which those involved have argued – to justify the presence in their bodies of clostebol (an anabolic) for the Italian, and trimetazidine (a prohibited substance with uncertain doping effects) for the Polish player. On Sinner's side, the theory put forward is indirect contamination due to a spray used by his physiotherapist to treat a cut on his own finger. For Swiatek, the substance is apparently present in a melatonin medication that she takes to combat insomnia.