Tennis fans and players took to social media in a frenzy this week after the news of American player Casey Kania’s two-year suspension for marijuana, which generated plenty of debate as well as a wave of support for the 21-year-old.
The International Tennis Integrity Agency announced on Tuesday that it had suspended Kania after an in-competition urine test in August 2023 at an ATP Challenger in Cary, North Carolina was found to contain marijuana.
As users questioned marijuana’s debatable performance enhancing abilities in tennis, Britain’s Liam Broady took to X to call the suspension “a joke”.
“What a joke. Really going after the big fish here,” Broady wrote, adding a ‘laughing hysterically’ emoji. “I’d pay a lot of money to see somebody playing better tennis in THAT heat in Cary after smoking a joint.”