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Former Wimbledon finalist Nick Kyrgios was provisionally suspended from tennis on Wednesday (Aug 19) after testing positive for cocaine, with the volatile Australian owning up to his "huge mistake" in a public apology.
LONDON: Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios said on Wednesday that he had made “a huge mistake” after testing positive for cocaine. The 31-year-old, who reached the final at Wimbledon in 2022, failed a doping test during an ATP event in Mallorca, Spain, on June 22. “On 17 July 2026, a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) accredited laboratory confirmed the presence of benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine,” the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) said. Kyrgios, whose undoubted talent has been overshadowed by a suspect temperament and injuries, wrote on Instagram that he took “full responsibility.” “I made a huge mistake,” he wrote. “I’m sorry to my fans, my family, my sponsors and everyone close to me. “Above all, I’m sorry to the kids who follow me. “I know the example this sets and I’m deeply disappointed in myself.” Boasting a big serve and booming ground strokes, Kyrgios has won seven singles titles on the ATP Tour and rose to a high of 13 in the world in 2016. His finest performance was on the grass at Wimbledon in 2022, when he reached the championship match, losing in four sets to Novak Djokovic. Despite his natural talents that is as good as it got, with a series of injuries taking their toll. He is now ranked 919 and has barely played in singles tennis in recent years. In January, he admitted he would never be the player that he once was. Kyrgios is one of the few players to have recorded tour-level wins over the “Big Four” of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray. But the success on court came with huge problems off it, including severe injuries to his right elbow, left wrist, hip, knees, shoulders and collarbone. He has had numberous surgeries, the most serious a complete
Nick Kyrgios said he has made “a huge mistake” after failing a doping test.
Wakil Indonesia masih tampil meyakinkan di UTR PTT Men's World Tennis Championship 2026. Dia adalah Anthony Susanto.
MASON: Serena and Venus Williams played their first doubles match together since the 2022 U.S. Open and lost a thriller, 2-6, 6-1 (10-8) to Marta Kostyuk and Peyton Stearns on Monday night at the Cincinnati Open. The sisters nearly recovered from a 6-0 deficit in the match tiebreaker before a double-fault by Venus Williams ended their first doubles appearance in a non-Grand Slam event since the Italian Open in 2016. “I thought it was fun,” Serena said. “I thought it was special.
Men's World Tennis Championship 2026 kembali bergulir setelah dua pekan rehat. Kali ini mempertandingkan seri Universal Tennis Rating Pro Tennis Tour (UTR PTT).
Venus Williams's losing streak in singles play has reached 13 matches.
MANILA: On a Manila court made of crushed seashells, an earnest four-year-old sends a forehand sailing wide — one of dozens of kids aiming to follow in the footsteps of the Philippines’ first homegrown tennis sensation, Alexandra Eala. The 21-year-old’s rise has sparked a rush of interest in a sport typically seen as the preserve of the elite in a country best known for its love of basketball, boxing and cockfighting. Racquet sales are up and scoring one of the few available playing venues has become next to impossible as parents cram their pre-schoolers onto practice courts. “Apart from just bringing in people to watch, she’s actually (got) people to play,” Philippine Tennis Association (PhilTA) executive director Tonette Mendoza told AFP. “Maybe the parents of these kids, they’re thinking: Hey, if we do this, maybe they can be the next Alex,” she said. A now-famous photo of Eala diving flat out for a ball at Wimbledon’s Center Court was all it took to convince nine-year-old Mayumi Stevens. “I felt like, wow, that’s going to be me,” Stevens told AFP as she waited to train alongside older pre-teens at the Alabang Tennis Academy in an exclusive Manila suburb. “I want to be Eala when I grow up.” ‘Onto the bandwagon’ French sporting goods retailer Decathlon is among the companies riding the Eala wave in the Philippines, busily reworking its store displays and social media after seeing sales of beginner racquets spike 66 percent in the past year. “We really had to jump onto the bandwagon … creating content that’s very relatable, that’s very timely for whatever’s happening with Alex right now,” partnerships and communications manager Vince Roque told AFP. PhilTA estimates there are fewer than 1,000 tennis courts in the