Thanasi Kokkinakis saw the amusing side of Nick Kyrgios and his explosive on-court blow-up during his loss to sixth seed Tomas Berdych in the Australian Open third round on Friday night.
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Berdych, a two-time semi-finalist, was unfazed by the home support and eventually secured a 6-3 6-4 1-6 6-4 victory.
The match ended when Kyrgios sailed a second serve long at 14-40, 4-5 in the fourth.
He then called Keothavong “a awful referee” as he was shaking hands with him.
“I played a good match today and raised my level from the earlier rounds”, said Bautista Agut.
Kyrgios’ demise leaves Bernard Tomic and John Millman as the only Australian men in the singles draw.
Kyrgios might have lost a few fans in the first 75 minutes with his continual jousting with the crowd and the chair umpire, but, somehow, he re-grouped after the second set, winning six of the next seven games to have a fighting chance. So do you want to be, Nick?
Kyrgios was incredibly distracted in his next service game, complaining about background noises he could hear in the Rod Laver Arena.
The Aussie Wild Thing was fined past year for telling Stan Wawrinka: “Kokkinakis banged your girlfriend, sorry to tell you that mate”.
“Is it normal for us to be playing with music in the crowd?”
Shortly afterwards Kyrgios found himself down two sets to love and seemingly in all sorts of trouble. I need to win three sets and I won the last one. And you have music playing while we’re playing. “Any time someone is beating Venus they are more than likely playing really good”, Serena said on Wednesday. “I am hoping to get the right ones next time”. “Maybe I walked out there trying to focus too much on what I had to do”. Djokovic owns their head-to-head 11-0, but Seppi is a unsafe player, as he upset Federer in the same round in last year’s Australian Open.
Gavrilova backed up her stunning second-round win over dual Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova to take out Mladenovic, the tournament’s 28th seed, in a rollercoaster encounter at Hisense Arena that featured no less than 13 service breaks. I look forward to the next phase in terms of work wise and in terms ofhelping these next guys coming through and the likes of Nick as well, ‘ he told reporters.
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“I think he deserves a lot of respect for the amounts of years that he spent in top 30”.
