Nick Kyrgios says tennis ‘is cooked’ after top-ranked player suspension

Nick Kyrgios has thoughts. Shocker.

As the tennis world continues to grapple with the suspension of five-time Grand Slam champion Iga Swiatek, Kyrgios, 29, added his two cents in a string of increasingly salacious X posts.

“The excuse that we can all use is that we didn’t know,” the Australian wrote in a post late Thursday evening. “Simply didn’t know. Professionals at the highest level of sport can now just say ‘we didn’t know.’”

Other comments Kyrgios voiced or echoed on social media were less courteous.

He reposted a string from a user that reads, “Cows. Tortellini. Semen. Collagen. Skin spray. Sleeping pills. Tennis players are really among the unluckiest people on the Earth. At this point you have to wonder how many of them are NOT ‘contaminated with integrity.’”

In another post, he opined, more succinctly, “our sport is cooked.” 

A fan wrote back to Kyrgios, chiding him for his prolonged absence. “‘Our’ sport mf you don’t even play.” 

In response, Kyrgios wrote, “Playing the aus open? When’s the last time you played a professional tournament? God social media has given peanuts a voice… hilarious.”

Swiatek’s suspension — levied after the Pole tested positive for the banned heart medication trimetazidine, otherwise known as TMZ — is the second major doping case to break since Kyrgios was last on the court in June 2023. 

Jannik Sinner, the 23-year-old Italian player and ATP No. 1, failed two tests for steroids in March 2024 but was cleared in August. 

The following month, he claimed his second Grand Slam title of the season at the U.S. Open.

Sinner was able to clear in time for the competition and avoid a suspension after an investigation by the International Tennis Integrity Agency determined he bore “no fault or negligence” for the violations.

The investigation alleged that the performance-enhancer had entered his system unintentionally through a massage from his physiotherapist.

Kyrgios had thoughts on this one, too.

“Ridiculous — whether it was accidental or planned. You get tested twice with a banned (steroid) substance … you should be gone for 2 years. Your performance was enhanced. Massage cream … Yeah nice,” he wrote on X.