Top-ranked tennis player Jannik Sinner accepted a three-month ban in a settlement with the World Anti-Doping Agency and said Saturday the agreement ends a case that was “hanging over me" since his two positive doping tests nearly a year ago.

According to Sinner, the substance entered his system after coming into contact with a support staff member who had been applying an ‘over-the-counter spray’ which contained slight levels of clostebol. Repeated massage by the said support staff member resulted in contamination.

WADA, which was seeking to ban the three-time Grand Slam champion from the sport for at least one year, had challenged a decision last year by the International Tennis Integrity Agency not to suspend Sinner for what the ITIA judged was accidental contamination by a banned anabolic steroid last March.