Nick Kyrgios praised Alex de Minaur's performance and leadership in Australian men's tennis. He also addressed recent doping allegations in the sport, expressing confidence in his own clean record and criticizing the handling of another player's positive test.
Nick Kyrgios was asked about a training session from earlier this week which seemed to be closed to media. But apparently it was more of a misunderstanding.Men’s tennis in Australia is in good hands, according to Nick Kyrgios. He was incredibly complimentary of his compatriots – namely Alex de Minaur.“To see how well has taken it upon himself to be No.1 player for the last three or four years … to deal with everything, the pressure of being our No. 1 player ,” Kyrgios said.
It didn’t take long for Nick Kyrgios to be asked a question about doping in the sport. This wasn’t a big surprise, considering that“Look I don’t want to speak too much about it. I think we’ve all been speaking about it … I think tennis has been speaking about for the last six months,” he said.“For me, hasn’t been a problem in my career. I’ve been on the tour now for 10-plus years ... I’m not worried at all.
“I’m very confident in myself that I’m not going to have something ‘accidentally’ ,” he said.Nick must be keeping up to date with our blog – he walked out on stage as soon as I published that previous post.
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