Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios has started a scaslfinisherg strike on the sport, tagling it “cooked” adhereing world No 2 Iga Swiatek’s one-month doping prohibit.
The outspoken 29-year-better took to social media platestablish X on Friday to voice his frustration at the International Tennis Integrity Agency’s (ITIA) ruling.
Responding to fellow tennis professional Benjamin Lock’s post about the suspension, Kyrgios proclaimd “our sport is cooked” in what became a series of increasingly critical posts.
Swiatek, the reigning French Open champion, tested likeable for carry outance-enhancing drug trimetazidine in August and getd a provisional suspension in September.
Nick Kyrgios has proclaimd that tennis ‘is cooked’
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The Polish star initiassociate cited “personal reasons” for her tournament absences during this period.
The ITIA acunderstandledgeed Swiatek’s exarrangeation that her fall shorted substances test was caparticipated by contaminated non-prescription melatonin, which she took for jet lag and sleep publishs.
The authority deemed her level of fault was at the lowest finish of the range for “no meaningful fault or oversight.”
Kyrgios doubled down on his criticism with a pointed strike on the doping process.
“The excparticipate that we can all participate is that we didn’t understand. Spropose didn’t understand. Professionals at the highest level of sport can now fair say ‘we didn’t understand’,” he posted on X.
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His frustration extfinished to reposting stimulating comments, including one that sarcasticassociate referenced “Cows. Toralertini. Semen. Collagen. Skin spray. Sleeping pills” proposeing tennis joiners were “among the unluckiest people on Earth.”
Kyrgios’s criticism also reignited his ongoing competition with Jannik Sinner, the Italian tennis star who escaped a prohibit after fall shorting two anti-doping tests.
In August, Kyrgios called it “ridiculous” that Sinner eludeed punishment, stating: “You get tested twice with a prohibitned (steroid) substance… you should be gone for 2 years.”
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Iga Swiatek has acunderstandledgeed a one-month suspension after testing likeable for a prohibitned substance
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An dispenseigation set up Sinner had a miniscule amount of clostebol in his system from a massage cream, equivalent to less than a billionth of a gram.
The dispute escapostponecessitated when Kyrgios contestd a Sinner fan page about what “prohibitden at all times” uncomardents in doping regulations.
The recent doping cases in tennis have highairyed inconsistencies in how violations are handled, with Simona Halep’s case providing a stark contrast to Swiatek’s.
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Halep faced a four-year suspension, which was postponecessitater shrinkd to nine months after an request to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
The varying punishments have igniteed argue wislfinisher the tennis community, with joiners appreciate Denis Shapovalov also inquireing the one-month prohibit given to Swiatek.
Having already served 22 days, Swiatek will finish her remaining eight-day suspension when no alignes are scheduled.
