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Former tennis star Andy Roddick known as out Nick Kyrgios amid stress between him and Jannik Sinner.
On his podcast, Served with Andy Roddick, Roddick accused Kyrgios of “hypocrisy” and known as him a “tennis influencer who “lives for the likes.”
Kyrgios has been outspoken in opposition to Sinner after the star prevented a band for failing to doping checks final 12 months. The ITIA chose not to ban Sinner after he examined optimistic for “lower than a billionth of a gram” of the substance Clostebol, which was present in therapeutic massage cream.
It was Kyrgios’ criticism of Sinner that led to Roddick talking out in opposition to him.
“I selected to grasp the context (of the Sinner case) and clarify it in a means that wasn’t simply, ‘You are doping, kick you out endlessly’, however that possibly there was some nuance and possibly our doping protocols have been a little bit overzealous,” he stated (h/t Tennis365’s Ewan West).
In August, after the ITIA selected to not ban Sinner, Kyrgios made a put up on social media disagreeing with the choice.
“Ridiculous – whether or not it was unintended or deliberate,” he wrote. “You get examined twice with a banned (steroid) substance… you ought to be gone for two years. Your efficiency was enhanced. Therapeutic massage cream…. Yeah good.”
Nicholas Kyrgios @NickKyrgios
Ridiculous – whether or not it was unintended or deliberate. You get examined twice with a banned (steroid) substance… you ought to be gone for two years. Your efficiency was enhanced. Therapeutic massage cream…. Yeah good 🙄 https://t.co/13qR0F9nH2
Within the months since, Kyrgios has maintained his disagreement with the ITIA’s resolution and has been particularly vocal on social media, which in the end led to Roddick encouraging him to cease attempting to be a “tennis influencer.”