Alexandre Muller called out the ATP Tour for being doping-tested after midnight in Rio de Janeiro and Nick Kyrgios had advice for the Frenchman on what to do if it returned as positive.
On Thursday night, the world No. 60 completed a tight two-set win 7-5 7-6 (5) over Tomas Martin Etcheverry in the Rio Open round-of-16.
Apparently, as soon as the match finished, he was met by the anti-doping officers.
And Muller didn’t think it was fair to be tested that late.
“Doping test when we finish at midnight .. come on .. @atptour,” the 28-year-old wrote on X.
Kyrgios to Muller: Just say you didn’t know and it’s your team’s fault
The 2022 Wimbledon runner-up, who has been calling out and mocking Jannik Sinner pretty much daily for the past couple of months, sarcastically told the Frenchman to simply act like he didn’t know anything if he failed a doping test.
“Just say you ‘don’t know’ and that it was completely your teams fault if there are steroids in there (laughing emoji),” the Australian wrote.
Just say you ‘don’t know’ and that it was completely your teams fault if there are steroids in there 😂
— Nicholas Kyrgios (@NickKyrgios) February 21, 2025
To no one’s surprise, Kyrgios had a pretty strong reaction to Sinner settling with the WADA on a three-month doping ban, stating that “fairness in tennis doesn’t exist.”
“So WADA come out and say it would be a 1-2 year ban. Obviously Sinner’s team have done everything in their power to just go ahead and take a 3 month ban, no titles lost, no prize money lost. Guilty or not? Sad day for tennis. Fairness in tennis does not exist,” he wrote on X last weekend.
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