Nick Kyrgios, Iga Swiatek no longer on same WTL team after Australian's criticism

11/30/2024 08:20 PM

Nick Kyrgios and Iga Swiatek seemingly won't be anymore a part of the same World Tennis League team after the Australian criticized the Pole following her positive doping test.

At this year's WTL - which is slated to take place between December 19-22 in Abu Dhabi - the 2022 Wimbledon runner-up and the Polish five-time Grand Slam champion were supposed to represent The Eagles along with Barbora Krejcikova and Hubert Hurkacz. 

On Thursday, the news came out that Swiatek failed a doping test and that she accepted a one-month ban. After calling out the world No. 2 in several posts, the WTL changed graphics on their tournament site.

Now, Kyrgios is a part of Team Kites with Krejcikova, Jasmine Paolini and Casper Ruud. On the other side, the Pole stays on the Eagles team but this time along with Paula Badosa and Stefanos Tsitsipas.

Czyżby kolejne roszady w zespołach? 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. 🔗 Link: https://t.co/0EWBrh43SJ#czasnatenispic.twitter.com/dW7SJKGs38

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After the news dropped, the 29-year-old laughed: "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA"

Then, he labeled tennis as "cooked."

"OUR SPORT IS COOKED," he wrote on X. 

Also, Kyrgios took a dig at Swiatek's claim that she never heard of trimetazidine (TMZ) before she tested positive 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.

Meanwhile, the ITIA accepted the Pole's defense and that she was a victim of a contaminated medication and didn't 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.