Nick Kyrgios has added his voice to the talk raging round dietary supplements in tennis following Simona Halep’s ban.
The former girls’s world primary was discovered responsible by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) of two intentional breaches of the anti-doping guidelines and Halep was handed a 4 12 months ban.
At final 12 months’s US Open, Halep examined optimistic for roxadust, a prohibited substance, and was additionally discovered responsible of utilizing an unspecified prohibited substance or methodology in 2022 – irregularities had been found in her organic passport.
In a press release Halep stated: “I am continuing to train and do everything in my power to clear my name of these false allegations.”
Maria Sakkari, the present world No.9, was requested if she trusted the doping authorities, and informed the San Diego Open Press (through The Tennis Letter on Twitter/X): “One thing I can tell you for sure is the way they’re handling every situation with any player, any athlete, it’s just scary.
“We’re [going to] get to a point where we’re not even gonna be taking electrolytes.
“Thankfully, I haven’t been in that position. I never want to be. I’ve been very careful with everything that has to do with supplements. But I don’t know what the process is, how things are done behind closed doors. I don’t know who has a say. I have no idea. I would for sure improve the Whereabouts app, that’s the anti-doping app. It doesn’t work well. It’s supposed to remind you every day of your time slot and it doesn’t.
“They tried to improve it, but it’s not working very well. For us, we travel so much compared to other athletes. It’s just very stressful. I wake up almost every night to use the bathroom. If that’s close to my time slot, I’m just thinking ‘Do I go? Do I not go? Do I just wait if they come?’ It’s just very stressful.”
Kyrgios, who has typically been a controversial determine, weighed his opinion in on the talk, replying to the Sakkari feedback by suggesting he merely steered away from any sorts of dietary supplements – and challenged others to do likewise.
“Ehhh not really lol,” he wrote on Twitter/X. “I run on bananas and coke cola in 5 set battles. And my record in them speaks for itself.
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“Maybe players should just stop taking shady s**t look yourself in the mirror at the end of the day and say yep I did it right. Not hard.”
