Nick Kyrgios doubles down on criticism of Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek over drugs farce
The returning Aussie tennis hero has launched a tirade against arguably the two biggest names in the sport.
Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios has doubled down on his public scorning of players caught with performance-enhancing drugs in their system, regardless of the explanation for it.
This year alone, the No.1 ranked player in the world in both men’s and women’s tennis have had banned substances found in their system.
In October, Jannik Sinner was cleared of any wrongdoing despite testing positive for clostebol, an anabolic steroid that can be used to build muscle mass and enhance athletic performance.
Last month, Iga Swiatek (who recently fell to No.2 in the world rankings) was handed just a one-month ban after testing positive for the banned substance trimetazidine, a heart medication known as TMZ.
Kyrgios was very vocal when the news of Sinner’s failed test became public, crying out for a ban, regardless of the Italian’s explanation.
Sinner was given a provisional ban after each of his failed tests, but later had them lifted when his team successfully argued that he had been inadvertently contaminated with clostebol by his physiotherapist, who had applied Trofodermin to a cut on his own hand, the same hand that was then used for treatment on Sinner.
“The excuse that we can all use is that we didn’t know. Simply didn’t know. Professionals at the highest level of sport can now just say ‘we didn’t know’,” Kyrgios said with a thick undertone of sarcasm.
In response to Swiatek’s ban specifically, Kyrgios wrote in November: “OUR SPORT IS COOKED”.
