{"id":1014872,"date":"2026-08-21T12:26:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T12:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1014872\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T12:26:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T12:26:42","slug":"tennis-world-quickly-turns-on-nick-kyrgios-after-cocaine-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1014872\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis world quickly turns on Nick Kyrgios after cocaine suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nick Kyrgios has become the ultimate hypocrite after testing positive for cocaine<\/a> and being provisionally suspended.<\/p>\n

After years of punching down on anyone who popped for a banned substance, the Aussie bad boy is now calling for privacy after it happened to him.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the 31-year-old was provisionally suspended after testing positive for cocaine, stemming from a sample given at an event in Mallorca in June according to the International Tennis Integrity Agency.<\/p>\n

Kyrgios said in a statement on Wednesday night that his injury-riddled seasons, in which he has played only eight tournaments since the start of 2023, had taken a huge toll on him and contributed to his making a regrettable decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cI made a huge mistake and I take full responsibility for it,\u201d he said in his apology. \u201cI\u2019m not going to make excuses, but I do want to give some context about where I\u2019ve been. The last couple of years of injuries have taken a huge toll on me both physically and mentally.<\/p>\n

Nick Kyrgios tested positive for cocaine at a tournament in June. REUTERS<\/p>\n

\u201cMy body hasn\u2019t been able to do what my mind expects it to and coming to terms with being near the end of my career has been harder than I ever imagined.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, if he expected the tennis world to be forgiving and understanding, he was mistaken.<\/p>\n

Kyrgios long hammered Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek for their failed tests<\/a>, while bragging he\u2019d never returned a positive test and he dismissed their reasons.<\/p>\n

Sinner tested positive for Clostebol, but there was less than one-billionth of a gram found in his samples.<\/p>\n

The Italian\u2019s team claimed it had been ingested accidentally after his physio used the drug to treat a cut on his finger, and many experts said it would not have affected performance.<\/p>\n

Jannik Sinner reacts after winning a point against Alexander Zverev in the gentlemen\u2019s singles final of The Championships Wimbledon 2026. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n

Following an investigation, the International Tennis Integrity Agency found \u201cno fault or negligence\u201d on Sinner\u2019s behalf, and he was banned for three months.<\/p>\n

It was a decision Kyrgios labeled \u201cridiculous\u201d as he made it his mission to ridicule the World No. 1 at any chance possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cSad day for tennis. Fairness in tennis does not exist,\u201d Kyrgios wrote after Sinner accepted the punishment.<\/p>\n

He was equally critical of Swiatek\u2019s suspension, writing \u201cour sport is cooked\u201d following the lenient ban handed to Swiatek for a failed drug test.<\/p>\n

But those comments have come back to bite him, with several of his previous remarks being brought back up in the wake of his suspension.<\/p>\n

Simona Halep was critical of Nick Kyrgios after his ban was revealed. AP<\/p>\n

One of his comments on an X post has gone viral as fans called out the hypocrisy.<\/p>\n

The post from January 2025 reads: \u201cHypocrite? I\u2019ve never failed drug tests.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another pic from an Instagram story where he was asked \u201cDouble with Sinner pls\u201d\u2019 has also been dug back up, with the Aussie stating \u201cI only play with CLEAN players\u201d.<\/p>\n

Kyrgios also found himself in the crosshairs of former World No. 1 Simona Halep.<\/p>\n

The Aussie was critical of Halep after she too failed a drug test and she was quick to deliver a pointed message after his failed test.<\/p>\n

\u201cNever kick someone when they\u2019re down. Life has a strange way of changing positions. And an even stranger way of revealing the difference between an accident and a choice,\u201d she wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n

Other prominent tennis media figures have also piled on Kyrgios after the news.<\/p>\n

Nick Kyrgios on Arthur Ashe Stadium at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, Queens, on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. (Larry Marano \u00c2\u00a9 2015) Larry Marano<\/p>\n

\u201cThe amount of Nick Kyrgios\u2019 tweets ageing terribly atm \u2026 Just search the word \u2018clean\u2019 on his profile,\u201d tennis reporter Jose Morgado said on X.<\/p>\n

\u201cKyrgios\u2019s career is pretty tragic. Just oozed potential in the early stages and I LOVED it back then. His attitude was understandable as a young guy that struggled to deal with the talent he had. I was excited to see how he\u2019d turn out when he matured a bit. Never happened,\u201d popular tennis account Scott Barclay wrote after Kyrgios\u2019 failed drug test.<\/p>\n

\u201cNick Kyrgios is someone who has preached for a clean sport for a long time. Has made nasty remarks to players hitting with those who have failed drug tests in the past (Cruz Hewitt still only a junior at the time). He has now failed a drug test himself and been suspended under the Anti-Doping Programme. Ironic doesn\u2019t begin to sum it up,\u201d Fergus Gavin said.<\/p>\n

Safe to say the tennis world won\u2019t let the World No. 919 forget the things he said, namely how critical he has been of tennis\u2019 anti-doping system.<\/p>\n

Describing the system as \u201cawful,\u201d Kyrgios previously slammed the overly lenient bans handed down in the past.<\/p>\n

But ironically, he will now need that same system to be lenient towards him if he intends to continue his career into his 30s.<\/p>\n

Kyrgios will not be able to play until his case is resolved because of a mandatory provisional suspension.<\/p>\n

He faces a potential ban of up to four years for his positive test. However, his suspension would be limited to a maximum of three months if he can prove the drug was taken out of competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios has become the ultimate hypocrite after testing positive for cocaine and being provisionally suspended. After years…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1014873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[48],"tags":[79726,1824,6532,32855,62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1014872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-cocaine","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-nick-kyrgios","tag-simona-halep","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117133494509232401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1014873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}