I think silent bannings are ridiculous, especially that they are confirmed to have done something if they are going to be banned anyway. It's so conniving, like really protecting those in the sport regardless of what they do especially if they are big names.
No, they are getting rid of the thing that some people have equated with the thing they still say didn't exist.
Suspensions are not the same as bans. Being under arrest is not the same as being found guilty in court.
ITF still insist that they publicly announce everyone who gets an actual ban, but until now they've kept quiet until they are actually banned. Just because some people call that a silent ban, doesn't mean it is a silent ban.
Nevertheless, the fact people are confused by it, and there are fingers pointed every time a player takes an injury break, this move was inevitable.
What the ITF calls a silent ban is the time period between when a player has failed a doping test and when an actual hearing takes place. This is a provisional suspension -- you haven't been "found guilty" yet.
It's akin to the time that you are under arrest, indicted and awaiting trial, but you haven't been to the trial yet & you haven't been convicted yet. You do not have all the same rights as everyone else (you might be in jail, or the police take your passport, etc) but you are still presumed innocent.
It does NOT mean: a player fails the test, loses all his appeals and serves an actual "final verdict" ban that is completely concealed for the sake of his career/sponsors/tennis image, etc. That is something the ITF for sure will say does not exist and never existed.
Yeah, ITF means that there was a loophole allowing the "silent ban" to be possible, now they are making sure that the "silent ban" is impossible as long as they stick to the rules.
Of course, a silent ban still might happen if they decide to break their own rules.
@Kat_YYZ If that is the case I guess now I understand it. Still, if there is substantial evendience that just needed to be processed I think that they still should've made the "warrants" public. I mean isn't Cilic's silent ban also covering the real ban? So how many months did Cilic really got officially banned?
Next step: silent banning the ban on the silent bans. Typical double-negative.
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