Star players Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek have been caught with banned substances this year. According to Nick Kyrgios, the cases have been handled poorly.
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An Australian known as the bad boy of the tennis courts Nick Kyrgios played his first match in a year and a half on Monday. In the doubles of the ATP tournament played in Brisbane, he grabbed the victory of his famous pair in the first round Novak Djokovic with.
They defeated Austria by Alexander Erler and Germany Andreas Miesin in a three-way match.
Before the match, the 29-year-old Kyrgios let the new boring side of the sport burn. About this year’s number one players in the world rankings, yes Jannik Sinner than By Iga Swiatek a prohibited substance was found in the doping samples.
Swiatek, who won the French Open for the fourth time in his career, received a one-month ban from ITIA, which monitors the ethics of tennis. He has already completed that.
Sinner, who celebrated the championship in Australia and the United States this year, gave two positive doping samples in March. The Italian explained that clostebol, a banned substance, had ended up in his system due to a mistake made by his physiotherapist.
He survived the situation without sanction. Kyrgios already expressed earlier that he thinks Sinner should have received a two-year ban.
Kyrgios now stated that the Sinner and Swiatek cases are repugnant to tennis.
– I think it’s handled horribly in our sport. The fact that two top players are caught doping is disgusting for our sport. It looks terrible.
No understanding of the protocol of the species
Former world number one in women’s singles Simona Halep got busted two years ago for doping. He was banned from competition by ITIA for four years, but in the proceedings of CAS the sentence was shortened from the beginning of the year to nine months.
The Romanian opened up about ITIA’s activities after Swiatek’s doping news. He felt that the players were treated differently in the cases.
– How is it possible that there are completely different approaches to the same cases that happen at the same time, Halep sneered.
Djokovic, on the other hand, has previously spoken about the fact that there are flaws in the tennis doping system, and that there is no clear or consistent protocol.
ITIA has denied that it handled cases differently. Kyrgios liked the honesty of the sport.
– The honesty of tennis, everyone knows it, but no one wants to talk about it. It’s terrible.
– It’s not right. I know people don’t like me talking about these things. In an honest tone, Kyrgios tapped.