Nick Kyrgios says the high-profile doping circumstances involving Grand Slam winners Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek are “disgusting” for tennis.
Italian males’s global primary Sinner nonetheless faces the specter of a imaginable suspension after he two times examined sure for an anabolic steroid in March.
Swiatek, additionally 23, served a one-month suspension after trying out sure for a banned middle medicine in August, when the Pole was once girls’s global primary.
“I simply suppose that it is been treated horrifically in our recreation,” mentioned Australian Kyrgios, 29.
“Two global quantity ones each getting accomplished for doping is disgusting for our recreation.
“It is a terrible glance.”
Kyrgios is getting ready to make his go back to aggressive motion on the Brisbane World, 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 change into concerned with controversy over respective failed checks.
Whilst the World Tennis Integrity Company (ITIA) cleared Sinner of wrongdoing after he two times examined sure for clostebol, the case was once taken to the Court docket of Arbitration for Recreation (Cas) after the Global Anti-Doping Company (Wada) introduced an enchantment.
Swiatek permitted a one-month ban, which ended on 4 December, after the ITIA permitted her sure take a look at for trimetazidine (TMZ) was once brought about by way of contamination of the regulated non-prescription medicine melatonin.
The remedy of the ones two gamers has resulted in accusations of double requirements, with two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep pronouncing there have been “utterly other approaches” to these circumstances in comparison to her personal.
Alternatively the ITIA strongly denies dealing with those circumstances any in a different way.
Kyrgios mentioned: “The tennis integrity at the moment, and we all know it however nobody needs to discuss it, is terrible.
“It is not ok. I do know that folks do not like once I simply talk out about issues, be fair about issues.”
Along with making his singles go back towards Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard, Kyrgios is about to spouse Novak Djokovic – chasing his a hundredth Excursion-level identify in Brisbane – within the males’s doubles festival.
