Nick Kyrgios: Controversial tennis player’s career could be over after positive cocaine test

In 2023, Kyrgios admitted assaulting ex-girlfriend Chiara Passari by pushing her on the pavement during a row in Canberra. The magistrate called the incident “a single act of stupidity or frustration” when sparing him a criminal record.

Then two years ago he publicly distanced himself from controversial influencer Andrew Tate, who is currently fighting extradition to the UK on charges including rape and offences related to sex trafficking.

Kyrgios told the BBC he had “deleted posts, unfollowed him and gone to all lengths to distance” himself from Tate.

The current world number 919 will now step away from public life for the next 28 days to “do the work and come back better.”

The legal process will take many months – and Kyrgios is no fan of tennis’ anti-doping system.

Describing the system as “awful,” he made repeatedly clear his opinion that both Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek received overly lenient bans after their recent high-profile doping cases.

“Sad day for tennis. Fairness in tennis does not exist,” Kyrgios wrote after Sinner accepted a three-month ban for testing positive for clostebol.

But if he does decide he wants to continue his career into his thirties, much will rest on the process of which Kyrgios has been so critical.

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