LONDON \u2014 Nick Kyrgios accepted a one-month suspension from the International Tennis Integrity Association for\u00a0testing positive for cocaine\u00a0at a tournament in Spain in June, the organization announced Thursday.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old from Australia had been provisionally suspended since Aug. 4,\u00a0which was revealed\u00a0just over two weeks later.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
WADA’s 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 completion of that program.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kyrgios’ prize money and ranking points from the Mallorca event are forfeited. He lost his only match to countryman Adam Walton.<\/p>\n
A finalist at Wimbledon in 2022 when he\u00a0lost to Novak Djokovic, Kyrgios has played only four ATP singles matches this year and is ranked 918th in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2014 Nick Kyrgios accepted a one-month suspension from the International Tennis Integrity Association for\u00a0testing positive for cocaine\u00a0at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-882609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882609","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=882609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}