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Nick Kyrgios: 'Runs on Bananas and Coke Cola' Comment Comes Back to Bite Him as Former World No 1 Sends 29-Word Message

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Nick Kyrgios has never been one to mince his words, but those very words he used to criticise the likes of Simona Halep, Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek have now come back to haunt him.

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The former world number 1, retired since February 2025, has not been tender with the player suspended after his positive control of cocaine. She published an Instagram story in which she stated that "life has a strange way to reverse situations." The Australian, in fact, took it as a target in 2022 when it was tested positive at the US Open.

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The Romanian tennis player was suspended for giving positive on roxadustat and the Australian heavily charged against her on social media.

·Madrid, Spain
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In his personal battle against Jannik Sinner, the controversy Nick Kyrgios had also brought on other tennis players. One of these was Simona Halep, former number 1 in the world that in August 2022 turned out positive at Roxadustat. Initially disqualified for 4 years, his sentence was then reduced to 9 months because it was shown that he had [...] The article "Life has a strange way of overturning situations. And reveals the difference between an…

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Former number 1 of the world Simona Halep used social networks to react to Nick Kyrgios' suspension after the Australian tested positive for cocaine. The Romanian message rescued an old exchange of criticism between the two tennis players, initiated after the doping case that drove her away from the circuit. "Never kick someone who is on the ground. Life has a strange way of changing people's positions. And still has an even weirder way of revea…

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In Benglish we have a tennis trainer program in which you can learn English in less than a year: Click here Nick Kyrgios' provisional suspension for a cocaine positive has revived an old controversy with Simona Halep. Australian gave positive for benzoilecgonin, a metabolite of cocaine, in a sample taken during Mallorca's ATP 250 on June 22. The suspension began on August 4 and Kyrgios publicly acknowledged his responsibility, qualifying what ha…

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TennisUpToDate.com broke the news on Thursday, August 20, 2026.
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