"I run on bananas and Coca Cola in five set battles": Kyrgios counter acts Sakkari's remarks surrounding 'scary' doping situation

Nick Kyrgios has hit back after comments from Maria Sakkari surfaced about the current doping situation which she dubbed 'scary' and that players soon won't be able to take electrolytes.

But for Kyrgios he says it is a simple fact of not taking anything shady and that he has survived his career by eating bananas and drinking Coca-Cola during matches in five-set matches and that the only way is to know you've done right.

"Ehhhh not really lol, I run on bananas and coke cola in 5 set battles. And my record in them speaks for itself. Maybe players should just stop taking shady sh*t. Look yourself in the mirror at the end of the day and say yep I did it right. Not hard," Nick Kyrgios commented.

This was in response to Sakkari saying about not trusting doping authorities after Simona Halep was given a four year ban for testing positive for Roxudustat after the US Open last year, something she still vehemently denies.

“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 gonna 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," said Sakkari.

"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 the anti-doping app. It doesn’t work well. It’s supposed to remind you every day of your time slot & 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.”