Sinner & Swiatek cases 'disgusting' for tennis - Kyrgios

Nick Kyrgios says the high-profile doping cases involving Grand Slam winners Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek are "disgusting" for tennis.

Italian men's satellite fig 1 Sinner still faces the menace of a imaginable suspension aft helium doubly tested affirmative for an anabolic steroid successful March.

Swiatek, besides 23, served a one-month suspension aft investigating affirmative for a banned bosom medicine successful August, erstwhile the Pole was women's satellite fig one.

"I conscionable deliberation that it's been handled horrifically successful our sport," said Australian Kyrgios, 29.

"Two satellite fig ones some getting done for doping is disgusting for our sport.

"It's a horrible look."

Kyrgios is preparing to marque his instrumentality to competitory enactment astatine the Brisbane International, pursuing an 18-month injury-enforced lack since contesting the Stuttgart Open successful June 2023.

In that time, the sport's starring players successful some the men's and women's games person go progressive successful contention implicit respective failed tests.

While the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) cleared Sinner of wrongdoing aft helium doubly tested affirmative for clostebol, the lawsuit was taken to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) aft the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) launched an appeal.

Swiatek accepted a one-month ban, which ended connected 4 December, aft the ITIA accepted her affirmative trial for trimetazidine (TMZ) was caused by contamination of the regulated non-prescription medicine melatonin.

The attraction of those 2 players has led to accusations of treble standards, with two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep saying determination were "completely antithetic approaches" to those cases compared to her own.

However the ITIA powerfully denies handling these cases immoderate differently.

Kyrgios said: "The tennis integrity close now, and everyone knows it but nary 1 wants to talk astir it, is awful.

"It's not okay. I cognize that radical don't similar erstwhile I conscionable talk retired astir things, beryllium honorable astir things."

In summation to making his singles instrumentality against Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard, Kyrgios is acceptable to spouse Novak Djokovic - chasing his 100th Tour-level rubric successful Brisbane - successful the men's doubles competition.