Nick Kyrgios says the high-profile doping circumstances involving Grand Slam winners Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek are “disgusting” for tennis.
Italian males’s world primary Sinner nonetheless faces the specter of a attainable suspension after he twice examined constructive for an anabolic steroid in March.
Swiatek, additionally 23, served a one-month suspension after testing constructive for a banned coronary heart medicine in August, when the Pole was girls’s world primary.
“I simply suppose that it has been dealt with horrifically in our sport,” stated Australian Kyrgios, 29.
“Two world quantity ones each getting completed for doping is disgusting for our sport.
“It is a horrible look.”
Kyrgios is getting ready to make his return to aggressive motion on the Brisbane Worldwide, following an 18-month injury-enforced absence since contesting the Stuttgart Open in June 2023.
In that point, the game’s main gamers in each the lads’s and ladies’s video games have turn into concerned in controversy over respective failed exams.
Whereas the Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company (ITIA) cleared Sinner of wrongdoing after he twice examined constructive for clostebol, the case was taken to the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) after the World Anti-Doping Company (Wada) launched an attraction.
Swiatek accepted a one-month ban, which ended on 4 December, after the ITIA accepted her constructive check for trimetazidine (TMZ) was attributable to contamination of the regulated non-prescription medicine melatonin.
The remedy of these two gamers has led to accusations of double requirements, with two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep saying there have been “fully totally different approaches” to these circumstances in comparison with her personal.
Nevertheless the ITIA strongly denies dealing with these circumstances any in a different way.
Kyrgios stated: “The tennis integrity proper now, and everybody is aware of it however nobody needs to talk about it, is terrible.
“It isn’t okay. I do know that folks don’t love once I simply converse out about issues, be trustworthy about issues.”
Along with making his singles return in opposition to Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard, Kyrgios is about to accomplice Novak Djokovic – chasing his one centesimal Tour-level title in Brisbane – within the males’s doubles competitors.
