Nick Kyrgios says the high-profile doping instances 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 doable 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 treatment in August, when the Pole was ladies’s world primary.
“I simply assume that it has been dealt with horrifically in our sport,” mentioned Australian Kyrgios, 29.
“Two world quantity ones each getting accomplished 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 girls’s video games have change into concerned in controversy over respective failed checks.
Whereas the Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company (ITIA) cleared Sinner of wrongdoing after he twice examined constructive for clostebol, the case was taken to the Court docket 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 constructive take a look at for trimetazidine (TMZ) was attributable to contamination of the regulated non-prescription treatment melatonin.
The therapy of these two gamers has led to accusations of double requirements, with two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep saying there have been “fully completely different approaches” to these instances in comparison with her personal.
Nonetheless the ITIA strongly denies dealing with these instances any otherwise.
Kyrgios mentioned: “The tennis integrity proper now, and everybody is aware of it however nobody needs to discuss it, is terrible.
“It isn’t okay. I do know that folks do not like after 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 a hundredth Tour-level title in Brisbane – within the males’s doubles competitors.