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Jannik Sinner has officially returned to the tribunal aft serving a three-month suspension resulting from a affirmative cause test. He’s besides officially single.
The top-ranked men’s singles tennis pro clarified his narration presumption up of the Italian Open this week aft an Italian work shared photos of him spending clip with Russian exemplary Lara Leito past month.

Italy's Jannik Sinner speaks during a property league for the Italian Open successful Rome connected May 5, 2025. (Alfredo Falcone/LaPresse via AP)
The quality seemingly confirmed Sinner’s divided from chap tennis pro Anna Kalinskaya.
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"I’m precise blessed to beryllium backmost here. It has been 3 precise agelong months," Sinner said during a property league connected Tuesday. "I was gladsome to stock immoderate large moments with my family, with my friends. We were practicing precise hard, particularly successful the gym successful the beginning, coming backmost to the tribunal again."
On apical of sharing accusation astir his training, Sinner got up of reporters to corroborate that helium is "single."
"I saw determination is simply a batch of attraction besides benignant of disconnected the court, and I was besides precise amazed to spot immoderate pictures which, thing serious, let’s accidental similar this: I’m not successful a relationship, truthful for whoever is asking, it’s each good."
Sinner and Kalinskaya were linked past year, which helium confirmed astatine the French Open successful May 2024, the New York Post reported. The mates shared a buss a fewer months aboriginal aft helium won the U.S. Open successful September.

Anna Kalinskaya (Geoff Burke/Imagn Images)
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But the paparazzi snaps and Sinner’s comments this week person confirmed their split.
Back connected the court, Sinner expressed joyousness astatine returning to tennis aft the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) suspended him arsenic a effect of investigating affirmative for a banned anabolic steroid doubly much than a twelvemonth ago.
"I didn’t privation to bash it successful the beginning, and besides it was a spot not casual for maine to judge it, due to the fact that I cognize what truly happened," Sinner said. "But sometimes we person to take the champion successful a precise atrocious moment, and that’s what we did. So it’s each implicit now. So I’m blessed to play tennis again."

Jannik Sinner (Mike Frey-Imagn Images)
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Sinner, 23, tested affirmative for debased levels of metabolite of clostebol, a banned anabolic steroid that tin beryllium utilized for ophthalmological and dermatological use, successful March 2024. Eight days aft the Indian Wells tournament, Sinner tested affirmative again successful an out-of-competition sample.
According to the International Tennis Integrity Agency’s archetypal findings, Sinner explained that helium tested affirmative aft receiving a massage from a trainer who had utilized an over-the-counter spray that contained clostebol to dainty a tiny coiled aft cutting his ain finger.
While WADA accepted the no-fault explanation, the enactment said the three-month suspension was indispensable arsenic "an jock bears work for the entourage’s negligence."
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