{"id":819078,"date":"2026-08-19T19:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T19:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/819078\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T19:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T19:24:11","slug":"nick-kyrgios-controversial-tennis-players-career-could-be-over-after-positive-cocaine-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/819078\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios: Controversial tennis player’s career could be over after positive cocaine test"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2023, Kyrgios admitted assaulting<\/a> ex-girlfriend Chiara Passari by pushing her on the pavement during a row in Canberra. The magistrate called the incident “a single act of stupidity or frustration” when sparing him a criminal record.<\/p>\n

Then two years ago he publicly distanced himself from controversial influencer Andrew Tate, who is currently fighting extradition to the UK<\/a> on charges including rape and offences related to sex trafficking.<\/p>\n

Kyrgios told the BBC<\/a> he had “deleted posts, unfollowed him and gone to all lengths to distance” himself from Tate.<\/p>\n

The current world number 919 will now step away from public life for the next 28 days to “do the work and come back better”.<\/p>\n

The legal process could take many months – and Kyrgios is no fan of tennis’ anti-doping system.<\/p>\n

Describing the system as “awful,” he made clear repeatedly his opinion that both Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek received overly lenient bans after their recent high-profile doping cases.<\/p>\n

“Sad day for tennis. Fairness in tennis does not exist,” Kyrgios wrote after Sinner accepted a three-month ban for testing positive for clostebol.<\/p>\n

But if he does decide he wants to continue his career into his 30s, much will rest on the process of which Kyrgios has been so critical.<\/p>\n

If you, or someone you know, have been affected by any issues raised in this article, support and information is available at BBC Action Line.<\/a> You can also contact the Samaritans on a free helpline at 116 123, or visit the website., external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2023, Kyrgios admitted assaulting ex-girlfriend Chiara Passari by pushing her on the pavement during a row in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-819078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}