Nick Kyrgios and Iga Swiatek seemingly will not be anymore part of the identical World Tennis League staff after the Australian criticized the Pole following her constructive doping check.
At this 12 months’s WTL – which is slated to happen between December 19-22 in Abu Dhabi – the 2022 Wimbledon runner-up and the Polish five-time Grand Slam champion had been imagined to characterize The Eagles together with Barbora Krejcikova and Hubert Hurkacz.
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Now, Kyrgios is part of Group Kites with Krejcikova, Jasmine Paolini and Casper Ruud. On the opposite aspect, the Pole stays on the Eagles staff however this time together with Paula Badosa and Stefanos Tsitsipas.
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Na stronie World Tennis League pojawiły się nowe grafiki. Wynika z nich, że Iga Świątek i Hubert Hurkacz będą w jednym zespole z Paulą Badosą i Stefanosem Tsitsipasem.
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Then, he labeled tennis as “cooked.”
“OUR SPORT IS COOKED,” he wrote on X.
Additionally, Kyrgios took a dig at Swiatek’s declare that she by no means heard of trimetazidine (TMZ) earlier than she examined constructive for it.
“The excuse that we can all use is that we didn’t know. Simply didn’t know. Professionals at the highest level of sport can now just say “we didn’t know,'” the Australian wrote.
In the meantime, the ITIA accepted the Pole’s protection and that she was a sufferer of a contaminated treatment and did not intend to cheat.
“The only positive doping test in my career, showing unbelievably low level of a banned substance I’ve never heard about before, put everything I’ve worked so hard for my entire life into question… I’m just relieved it’s over. I want to be open with you, even though I know I did nothing wrong,” Swiatek wrote on Instagram.
