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 still faces the threat of a possible suspension after he twice examined optimistic for an anabolic steroid in March.
Swiatek, additionally 23, served a one-month suspension after testing optimistic for a banned coronary heart treatment in August, when the Pole was ladies’s world primary.
“I simply assume that it has been dealt with horrifically in our sport,” stated Australian Kyrgios, 29.
“Two world quantity ones each getting performed 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 boys’s and girls’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 optimistic for clostebol, the case was taken to the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) after the World Anti-Doping Company (Wada) launched an enchantment.
Swiatek accepted a one-month ban, which ended on 4 December, after the ITIA accepted her optimistic check for trimetazidine (TMZ) was attributable to contamination of the regulated non-prescription treatment melatonin.
The remedy of these two gamers has led to accusations of double requirements, with two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep saying there were “completely different approaches” to these circumstances in comparison with her personal.
Nonetheless the ITIA strongly denies dealing with these circumstances any otherwise.
Kyrgios stated: “The tennis integrity proper now, and everybody is aware of it however nobody needs to talk about it, is terrible.
“It is not okay. I do know that folks do not like once I simply converse out about issues, be trustworthy about issues.”
Along with making his singles return towards Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard, Kyrgios is about to companion Novak Djokovic – chasing his one centesimal Tour-level title in Brisbane – within the males’s doubles competitors.