Nick Kyrgios reveals why he did not interview Jannik Sinner on the US Open

Throughout his powerful rehabilitation course of, Nick Kyrgios has devoted himself to different actions associated to the world of tennis. Over the last version of the US Open, for instance, the Australian labored as a commentator for ESPN, interviewing gamers on the court docket on the finish of their matches on a number of events.

Nevertheless, Jannik Sinner is just not among the many many tennis gamers who’ve answered Kyrgios’ questions. The Australian has by no means interviewed the world primary.

Kyrgios defined that there isn’t a correlation between this occasion and the robust statements he made on the Clostebol case. The previous finalist was eager to level out that it was an express request from the US firm ESPN.

“ESPN manufacturing instructed me to not do it, however you proceed to don’t know about something,” defined the Australian. Particularly throughout that interval, the previous Wimbledon finalist attacked Sinner a number of occasions for testing constructive for Clostebol and for the best way the ITIA dealt with the matter. He then handled Iga Swiatek the identical approach a couple of months later.

The Polish participant was punished with a one-month suspension after testing constructive for the prohibited substance trimetazidine (TMZ). The check was constructive, in accordance with the individual involved and the ITIA, as a result of contamination of an over-the-counter drug – melatonin – that may be bought in Poland with out a prescription.

Let’s keep in mind that Nick and Jannik might face one another on the Australian Open: it might be a match that may have many meanings, contemplating the campaign carried out by the Australian towards the Italian in current months: an argument nevertheless fueled solely by Kyrgios, as Sinner has by no means as soon as responded to his rival’s provocations.

We recall Sinner was discovered harmless by an unbiased tribunal ITIA, however subsequently the World Anti-Doping Company WADA appealed to the CAS to overturn the end result of the sentence, asking for 1-2 years of disqualification for the Italian tennis participant: the sentence ought to arrive after center February 2025.