Nick Kyrgios, a talented Australian tennis player with a bad reputation on the tennis court, won over Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece, the No. 4 seed, last Saturday night at Wimbledon. The match was not without controversial incidents.
During the match, Kyrgios kept chasing the chair umpire, tournament referees and supervisors asking them to default Tsitsipas, who angrily shot the ball to the stadium and almost hit a fan on the fly. Kyrgios argued that the umpire certainly would have kicked him out had he done the same thing. On this argument, he may not be wrong about that.
The incessant nagging and interruptions irritated Tsitsipas. He had a hard time trying keep his composure and complained to the chair umpire that Kyrgios was turning the match into a circus. Then he made things worse and started trying to peg Kyrgios with his shots. In the meantime, the audience became more and more excited with each confrontation.
Things got very intense at the match point when Tsitsipas failed to return three shots. The drama dragged all the way to the news conferences and reached the climax when Kyrogios and Tsitsipas pointed the fingers and insulted each other.
“It’s constant bullying, that’s what he does,” Tsitsipas said of Kyrgios. “He bullies the opponents. He was probably a bully at school himself. I don’t like bullies. I don’t like people that put other people down. He has some good traits in his character, as well. But when he — he also has a very evil side to him, which if it’s exposed, it can really do a lot of harm and bad to the people around him.”
“We’re not cut from the same cloth,” Kyrgios said of Tsitsipas. “I go up against guys who are true competitors. If he’s affected by that today, then that’s what’s holding him back, because someone can just do that and that’s going to throw him off his game like that. I just think it’s soft.”
Despite all the turmoil and battles with umpires, referees, rivals, news media, alcohol, a restless mind, and a recent allegation of assaulting a former girlfriend, Kyrgios managed to keep advancing at Wimbledon. He won over Brandon Nakashima from the USA in the round of 16, and beat Cristian Garin from Chili in the quarter final. Now the “bad tennis boy” enters the semi-final and is going to play Rafael Nadal, a gentleman on the court, this Friday.
The Nadal-Kyrgios semi-final is a must-watch match. To everybody’s disappointment, the semi-final won’t happen because Nadal withdrawal from Wimbledon semi-final due to injury. Today, right now, Djokovic-Kyrgios final is going on with millions of audiences watching around the world. Will the “bad tennis boy” win Wimbledon?
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During the match, Kyrgios kept chasing the chair umpire, tournament referees and supervisors asking them to default Tsitsipas, who angrily shot the ball to the stadium and almost hit a fan on the fly. Kyrgios argued that the umpire certainly would have kicked him out had he done the same thing. On this argument, he may not be wrong about that.
The incessant nagging and interruptions irritated Tsitsipas. He had a hard time trying keep his composure and complained to the chair umpire that Kyrgios was turning the match into a circus. Then he made things worse and started trying to peg Kyrgios with his shots. In the meantime, the audience became more and more excited with each confrontation.
Things got very intense at the match point when Tsitsipas failed to return three shots. The drama dragged all the way to the news conferences and reached the climax when Kyrogios and Tsitsipas pointed the fingers and insulted each other.
“It’s constant bullying, that’s what he does,” Tsitsipas said of Kyrgios. “He bullies the opponents. He was probably a bully at school himself. I don’t like bullies. I don’t like people that put other people down. He has some good traits in his character, as well. But when he — he also has a very evil side to him, which if it’s exposed, it can really do a lot of harm and bad to the people around him.”
“We’re not cut from the same cloth,” Kyrgios said of Tsitsipas. “I go up against guys who are true competitors. If he’s affected by that today, then that’s what’s holding him back, because someone can just do that and that’s going to throw him off his game like that. I just think it’s soft.”
Despite all the turmoil and battles with umpires, referees, rivals, news media, alcohol, a restless mind, and a recent allegation of assaulting a former girlfriend, Kyrgios managed to keep advancing at Wimbledon. He won over Brandon Nakashima from the USA in the round of 16, and beat Cristian Garin from Chili in the quarter final. Now the “bad tennis boy” enters the semi-final and is going to play Rafael Nadal, a gentleman on the court, this Friday.
The Nadal-Kyrgios semi-final is a must-watch match. To everybody’s disappointment, the semi-final won’t happen because Nadal withdrawal from Wimbledon semi-final due to injury. Today, right now, Djokovic-Kyrgios final is going on with millions of audiences watching around the world. Will the “bad tennis boy” win Wimbledon?
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https://nypost.com/2022/07/06/rafael-nadal-nick-kyrgios-wimbledon-semifinal-a-must-watch/
