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Ian Chadband and Shayne Hope

Sinner doping hearing at top sports court set for April

Jannik Sinner's doping hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport will be heard in April. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Jannik Sinner will go into his Australian Open title defence knowing a court hearing in Switzerland in April could condemn him to a potential two-year ban from the sport for doping.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), sport's highest tribunal, announced on Friday it had set a date for a behind-closed-doors hearing on April 16-17 at its headquarters in Lausanne over the world No.1's two positive doping tests from last year.

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