{"id":882561,"date":"2026-09-04T03:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T03:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/882561\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T03:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T03:30:09","slug":"nick-kyrgios-accepts-a-one-month-suspension-for-testing-positive-for-cocaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/882561\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios accepts a one-month suspension for testing positive for cocaine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LONDON (AP) \u2014 Nick Kyrgios accepted a one-month suspension from the International Tennis Integrity Association for testing positive for cocaine at a tournament in Spain in June, the organization announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 31-year-old from Australia had been provisionally suspended since Aug. 4, which was revealed just over two weeks later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The ITIA in its announcement said Kyrgios told investigators that he socially used cocaine during a night out before he was due to play in Mallorca, and after consulting with an expert from the World Anti-Doping Association, accepted that it was outside of competition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">WADA\u2019s default three-month ban can be reduced to one by completing a treatment program. The ITIA said Kyrgios\u2019 suspension is over Thursday pending the completing of that program. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kyrgios\u2019 prize money and rankings points from the Mallorca event are forfeited. He lost his only match to countryman Adam Walton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A finalist at Wimbledon in 2022 when he lost to Novak Djokovic, Kyrgios has played only four ATP singles matches this year and is ranked 918th in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"> See AP\u2019s full tennis coverage here <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 Nick Kyrgios accepted a one-month suspension from the International Tennis Integrity Association for testing positive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-882561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}