What are the precedents facing Kyrgios

Kyrgios, the 2022 Wimbledon finalist, tested positive for cocaine at June's grass-court event in Mallorca.

The Australian player has since then served a mandatory provisional suspension that began on 4 August.

A ban could theoretically stretch to four years.

However, if the 31-year-old can satisfy the International Tennis Integrity Agency that he ingested the drug out of competition, the suspension could fall to three months with no tribunal is necessary, BBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller reports.

A player is "in competition" from the day their draw begins until they leave the tournament.

Kyrgios was in competition in Stuttgart between 8-12 June and in Mallorca on 21 and 22 June, the day he lost in the first round and gave the sample.

Britain's Dan Evans tested positive for cocaine in competition in 2017 and was banned for a year under the rules of the time, even though investigators accepted he had taken it several days earlier.

The World Anti-Doping Agency code changed in 2021: Moroccan player Imran Sibille convinced the ITIA, with a detailed report from his psychologist, that he had taken the drug four to five days before an in-competition test in Spain in May 2025.

If Kyrgios clears that bar and agrees to enter a treatment programme, his ban could be as short as one month, leaving him eligible to compete again from 4 September.

That is a very different outcome to what a positive cocaine test could mean for his career.

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