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Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios took a weld on the world # 1 Jannik Sinner after winning Wimbledon for the first time in his career over Carlos Alcaraz on Sunday.
Sinner won the Grand Slam title in four sets. Kyrgios was not one to immediately celebrate the Italian star’s triumph.
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Italy’s Jannik Sinner celebrates with the trophy after beating Carlos Alcaraz from Spain to win men’s single final at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London on Sunday 13 July 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
He sent a star on social media.
The reaction came when Sinner’s positive tests for the anabolic steroid -Closelbol came out last year. World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) suspended the culprit for three months. International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) said that Sinner had not intentionally used a forbidden drug.
Sinner tested positively for low levels of a metabolite of Clostebol, a forbidden anabolic steroid that can be used for ophthalmological and dermatological use, in March 2024. Eight days after the Indian Well Tournament, Sinner tested positive again in an out-of-competitition test.
According to ITIA’s original findings, Sinner explained that he had tested positively after receiving a massage from a coach who had used an over-the-counter spray containing Clostbol to treat a small wound after cutting his own finger.
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Nick Kyrgios from Australia speaks during a press conference during an exercise session ahead of 2023 Australian Open in Melbourne Park on January 14, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Kelly Defina/Getty Images)
Even with the Wimbledon victory and a French open final appearance against Alcaraz, the steroid cloud has not yet disappeared over the culprit.
Kyrgios has been one of the biggest critics.
“So Wada came out and says it would be a 1-2-year ban,” Kyrgios said in a post of X earlier this year. “Obviously, Sinners (SIC) -Team has done everything they can to just go ahead and take a 3 month ban, no titles lost, no prize money lost. Guilt or not? Sad day for tennis. Retness in tennis does not exist.”
Italy’s Jannik Sinner celebrates after beating Carlos Alcaraz from Spain to win men’s single final at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London on Sunday 13 July 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Sinner now has four major titles – two at the Australian Open, one at the US Open and the other on Wimbledon. The French Open is the only one who has avoided him.
