Nick Kyrgios has criticized the sport of tennis for being 'cooked' following a doping scandal involving women's world No.2, Iga Swiatek, who accepted a one-month ban after testing positive for trimetazidine. This comes after another case involving men's world No.1, Jannik Sinner, who was not banned despite testing positive twice for an anabolic steroid.
Nick Kyrgios has taken a fresh swipe at tennis officialdom, declaring the sport is “cooked” after it was rocked by a second doping case this year involving one of the top players.
Swiatek’s case prompted Kyrgios, the 2022 Wimbledon runner-up, to post “OUR SPORT IS COOKED” on social media platform X. “I can’t find, and I don’t think there can be, a logical answer. It can only be bad will on the part of ITIA, the organisation that did absolutely everything to destroy me despite the evidence.”
Her suspension was reduced by the Court of Arbitration for Sport to nine months after CAS accepted her explanation of a contaminated supplement. But she missed 18 months of playing. Earlier this month, ATP Tour chairman Andrea Gaudenzi acknowledged there “could have been better communication” in explaining the rules involved in Sinner’s doping case, but rejected allegations of double standards.
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