This morning world No.1 men’s player Jannik Sinner begins his title defence, taking on Nicolás Jarry from Chile.

Sinner was last year found to have an illegal substance in two samples taken in March and will front a tribunal later this year, potentially to be banned,

Jarry himself was rubbed out of the sport for 11 months in 2019 when he was found to have accidentally ingested ligandrol and stanozolol.

Sinner was allowed to compete at the US Open even after the positive samples were announced, and he won that tournament. He may win this Australian Open even under the doping cloud.

Now Jarry has spoken out about the preferential treatment he believes Sinner is getting.

“I would have liked the same support he got when it happened to me. That’s something that affects me personally,” Jarry told Chilean newspaper La Tercera.

“I try to work on it, to talk about it, to not let it affect me, but it’s something I still can’t fully move on from.

“I don’t think I’ll ever be the same as before, both in tennis and emotionally, because I’ve learned so much, and I don’t want to go back to who I was.

“Unfortunately, it hasn’t entirely gone away, but it doesn’t affect me as much on the court anymore. I’m playing well, and I’m grateful for that, so I keep working and hoping that one day it will completely go away, and I’ll be 100 per cent healthy. There’s a chance it won’t, but I remain hopeful that I can get back to feeling as if I never had that injury.”