“Iga was suspended for a month. I don’t know what will happen with Jannik Sinner but I feel like at this point they will do something. They have created a precedent,” Andy Roddick said, driving to a conclusion. Iga Swiatek got a one-month ban for accidentally taking a banned substance, trimetazidine, from a contaminated melatonin supplement. Jannik Sinner also had a similar situation with clostebol, but he was cleared because it wasn’t intentional. However, his case is now being looked at again, and we won’t know the outcome until at least February 11th. In the meantime, Russian WTA pro-Anastasia Myskina, has demanded “details” of Swiatek’s case!

Myskina, who once held the rank of world number 2, shared her thoughts during an interview with the Russian website matchtv.ru. “I would like to know all the details of the case,” Myskina stated as quoted the Polish publication by przegladsportowy.onet.pl on December 5th. “There are various doping cases similar to these, but with different sentences. That’s what I don’t understand. Why do some get a month’s suspension and others a few years?”

Myskina added that “regardless of all the factors,” Świątek and Sinner “remain top-class players.” In her opinion, “it’s a coincidence that the world’s top female and male tennis players have been accused of doping in such a short time. “We all make mistakes,” she adds. In her opinion, “current anti-doping rules are “more stringent” than during her career, “but they still have to be respected.”

Yesterday, Ilie Nastase, former world No. 1 and two-time Grand Slam champion, talked to the Romanian publication G4Media. She highlighted how Simona Halep, whose four-year ban for doping was reduced to 9 months upon appeal, was a different treatment to Swiatek and Sinner because she is Romanian.

“Well, because she’s from Poland, that’s why she only got a month. They don’t give up, they’re not suckers like us. That’s why. That’s the difference. We’re the third world, Poland is in the good world. She must have said it wasn’t intentional, right? But she got it right? It’s ugly. Halep got two years in the first instance, and the Polish woman one month. Maybe it scared them that Simona turned the result back to the CAS. But if the Italian wasn’t number 1, and he was Romanian, how long do you think he was suspended? Also 2-3 years.”

Rightly so, the contrasting outcomes of the top tennis players have raised questions about fairness in doping rulings. To this, ATP star Nick Kyrgios stepped forward with a brutal take.

Nick Kyrgios criticizes doping scandals with a call for integrity in tennis

Nick Kyrgios has openly voiced his disapproval through a sharp response on X. A fan sarcastically suggested on X that Clostebol and Trimetazidine (TMZ) should be legalized. The fan wrote, “I would request that the @itia_tennis make Clostebol and Trimetazidine (TMZ) legal for all Tennis players to take in 2025. It’s important that ALL Tennis players have a level playing field. @atptour @WTA.”

To this, Kyrgios didn’t mince any words and strongly rejected the idea. “No thanks. How about we just don’t have people cheating – and can look at themselves in the mirror and sleep knowing they’ve accomplished things without no bulls**t,” he wrote. Though he didn’t mention names, his remarks clearly targeted the two players who faced doping controversies this season.

Kyrgios remains firm in his stance and continues to emphasize that tennis must uphold fairness and integrity to protect the sport’s reputation.