“She’s already paranoid…” Rennae Stubbs explains why she can’t ‘imagine’ Iga Swiatek doing ‘something illegal’
Amid the doping controversy, Rennae Stubbs said she could never imagine a player like Iga Swiatek would use a performance enhancer.
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Rennae Stubbs, Iga Swiatek (Images via X)
The different verdicts of the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) on similar doping cases have created growing distrust in the tennis community. First Jannik Sinner avoided a ban following two failed drug tests and then Iga Swiatek was handed a short one-month ban, which again triggered controversy.
While there are some who still have faith in the ITIA, others accuse the organization of double standards. Amid these debates, when the most successful men’s and women’s tennis players of 2024 failed doping tests, it raised many eyebrows.
Not just fans but even current and former players have blamed the Sinner and Swiatek for their ignorance or for consuming the drugs intentionally. But Serena Williams‘ former coach Rennae Stubbs rubbished such claims and explained why someone like Swiatek who gets panicked all the time would never do anything wrong.
Iga’s already paranoid about everything going on in her life. She looks like she’s panicked about everything at all times. You can’t even imagine someone like Iga doing something illegal, because she’d be just on the court. You could tell in the first point, she’d be like, ‘Do they all know? Do they all know? Oh my God, oh my God’. She’s like, ‘I’m a great liar.’
Rennae Stubbs said on The Rennae Stubbs podcast
Podejrzenia o doping zawsze brzmią strasznie, a w przypadku najlepszej tenisistki świata i do tego Polki dotyka to jeszcze bardziej.
— SPORT | PolskieRadio24.pl (@sport_pr24pl) November 28, 2024
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Nick Kyrgios takes another dig at Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek
Nick Kyrgios is actively participating in debates about the failed drug tests and ITIA’s decision. He kept censuring not just ITIA but both the players and recently took another jibe at them. When a fan sarcastically wrote that the ITIA should make clostebol and trimetazidine (TMZ) legal for all tennis players, Kyrgios said it was not the right suggestion.
No thanks. How about we just don’t have people cheating – and can look at themselves in the mirror and sleep knowing they’ve accomplished things without no bullshit.
Nick Kyrgios wrote on X
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No thanks. How about we just don’t have people cheating – and can look at themselves in the mirror and sleep knowing they’ve accomplished things without no bullshit ?
— Nicholas Kyrgios (@NickKyrgios) December 3, 2024
Swiatek failed the drug test in August three days before the Cincinnati Open and so the ITIA forfeited the prize money she won in that tournament. A banned heart medication TMZ was found in her sample. The drug was in melatonin which the Pole had been taking to deal with jet lag and sleep problems.
Sinner was contaminated with clostebol while getting massages from his ex-physio Giacomo Naldi. He is waiting for the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s (CAS) decision after the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) appeal.
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