Nick Kyrgios is free to return to professional tennis after avoiding the lengthy suspension that threatened to bring his playing career to a premature end following his positive test for cocaine.

The Australian has received a one-month suspension that has already been served after the International Tennis Integrity Agency accepted that his cocaine use occurred out of competition.

Kyrgios provided a sample at the ATP 250 event in Mallorca on June 22, with testing detecting benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine, before he was provisionally suspended from August 4.

The 31-year-old admitted using cocaine and accepted responsibility for his…

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