Nick Kyrgios and Iga Swiatek seemingly won't be anymore a part of the same World Tennis League team after the Australian criticized the Pole following her positive doping test.

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At this year's WTL - which is slated to take place between December 19-22 in Abu Dhabi - the 2022 Wimbledon runner-up and the Polish five-time Grand Slam champion were supposed to represent The Eagles along with Barbora Krejcikova and Hubert Hurkacz.

On Thursday, the news came out that Swiatek failed a doping test and that she accepted a one-month ban. After calling out the world No. 2 in several posts, the WTL changed graphics on their tournament site.

Iga Swiatek Billie Jean King Cup/Instagram - Fair Use

Now, Kyrgios is a part of Team Kites with Krejcikova, Jasmine Paolini and Casper Ruud. On the other side, the Pole stays on the Eagles team but this time along with Paula Badosa and Stefanos Tsitsipas.

What Kyrgios said about Swiatek's failed doping test?

After the news dropped, the 29-year-old laughed: "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA"

Then, he labeled tennis as "cooked."

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"OUR SPORT IS COOKED," he wrote on X.

Also, Kyrgios took a dig at Swiatek's claim that she never heard of trimetazidine (TMZ) before she tested positive for it.

"The excuse that we can all use is that we didnt know. Simply didnt know. Professionals at the highest level of sport can now just say we didnt know,'" the Australian wrote.

Meanwhile, the ITIA accepted the Pole's defense and that she was a victim of a contaminated medication and didn't intend to cheat.

"The only positive doping test in my career, showing unbelievably low level of a banned substance Ive never heard about before, put everything Ive worked so hard for my entire life into question... Im just relieved its over. I want to be open with you, even though I know I did nothing wrong," Swiatek wrote on Instagram.


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