Nick Kyrgios and Iga Swiatek no longer on same World Tennis League team next month as awkward reunion awaits

Sunday, 01 December 2024 at 09:00

Either way it will be an awkward reunion but Nick Kyrgios and Iga Swiatek seemingly won't be on the same World Tennis League team as each other after all in the coming weeks after the comments of the former surrounding her doping charge.

At this year's World Tennis League which is slated for December 19-22 in Abu Dhabi, the 2022 Wimbledon runner-up and the Polish five-time Grand Slam champion were set to join forces in a stacked side including Barbora Krejcikova and Hubert Hurkacz for the Eagles.

But on Thursday after the news came out that Swiatek had failed a doping test and had accepted a one-month ban that changed in the days that followed. Kyrgios called out Swiatek in various posts albeit mainly the situation over the player. But seemingly in damage limitation, they have decided to put them on opposite sides of the court.

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Now Kyrgios is part of Team Kites with Krejcikova, Jasmine Paolini and Casper Ruud. Swiatek then stays on the Eagles team alongside Paula Badosa and Stefanos Tsitsipas. The other teams include Elena Rybakina joining up with close friends Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev as well as Caroline Garcia. Aryna Sabalenka leads Hawks alongside Sumit Nagal, Mirra Andreeva and Taylor Fritz.

"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.

While he also labelled tennis as being cooked after another tennis player Benjamin Lock heavily criticised the situation. "OUR SPORT IS COOKED," he wrote on X.

"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.

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.

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