08 September 2024 | 23.42
READING TIME: 1 minute
“I didn’t see Kyrgios…”. Angelo Binaghi, president of Fitp, takes care of placing the winning smash after Jannik Sinner’s triumph in the final of the 2024 US Open. The Italian, world number 1, wins the title in the New York Slam by beating the American Taylor Fritz in the final. Sinner receives compliments from everyone or almost everyone. Nick Kyrgios ‘seems’ to be missing from the roll call.
The Australian tennis player, out for months due to injury, has been in the spotlight in recent weeks for his ‘anti-Sinner’ stance, peppered with unpleasant excesses, after the doping case involving the Italian. Sinner, as is known, was not disqualified for testing positive for clostebol, an anabolic steroid: the South Tyrolean has demonstrated that the positivity was caused by contamination.
Kyrgios immediately asked for a 2-year ban for Sinner and, even during the US Open where he was deployed as a commentator by the ESPN broadcaster, he did not fail to underline the preferential treatment that would have been reserved for the Italian. In the repeated social back and forth, the Australian did not deny himself some unfortunate comments: a misogynistic tweet against Anna Kalinskaya, his former partner and Sinner’s current partner, and a pre-final poll that was openly provocative with the name of the Italian next to emoticons associated with doping. Now, with Sinner champion, what does Kyrgios do? On his X profile a message of comfort for Fritz appears: “Head held high, champ. Two great weeks, you should be proud of yourself”. And about Sinner? Nothing.
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