Nick Kyrgios didn’t let an AI-generated photo of Jannik Sinner putting him in a casket slide, asking the creator if they could also make one photo where the world No. 1 takes a banned anabolic steroid.
For context, the Australian has been taking shots at the reigning Australian Open and US Open champion since it was announced that he failed two doping tests in March.
While the ITIA ruled that the 23-year-old “bore no fault or negligence” for what happened, the 2022 Wimbledon finalist hasn’t accepted it and believes the Italian should have been handed a two-year suspension.
A couple of days ago, Kyrgios revealed that he would like to clash against Sinner at the Australian Open and then try to turn everyone against the world No. 1.
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One tennis fan thought that matchup would end in disaster for the former world No. 13 and used AI to portray what would happen.
The Australian noticed the photo and cheekily responded: “Mad AI photo – can we do one with the clostebol?”
Mad AI photo – can we do one with the clostebol?
— Nicholas Kyrgios (@NickKyrgios) December 17, 2024
How Kyrgios warned Sinner?
“I feel like I’ve got a lot more, I’ve got something, you know, let’s be honest. I just want to go out there and I really want to play Sinner. Like I’m waiting for it, man. Well, I thought about this and I’ve been thinking, I’ve been talking about it a little bit, like if I played him in Australian Open, like I would get every single person in the crowd to just like get on him. I would just turn into an absolute riot. Like I would lose all respect, would go out the window and would just do anything to win,” the 29-year-old said on the Nothing Major podcast.
Kyrgios and Sinner’s lone match came in the 2022 Miami Masters round-of-16 when the Italian won 7-6 (3) 6-3.
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