Kyrgios’s code violation for an audible obscenity kept up his record of falling foul of the umpire in each of his four rounds during Wimbledon.
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Except this match France’s Richard Gasquet and Australian Nick Kyrgios played 3 match each other and one of them was grand slam match, exactly Wimbledon match a round of 64, which was at past year.
The 20-year-old appeared to give up for a game early in the second set of his 7-5 6-1 6-7 (7/9) 7-6 (8/6) fourth-round loss to Richard Gasquet, and could face punishment from the global Tennis Federation.
In what looked to most impartial observers to be an act of immature rebellion, Kyrgios let two serves slide by him for aces without even swinging his racquet. And that’s coming from you? “I am so shocked to think that he went out there to play and he tanked…that’s awful”.
REPORTER: One game, yeah. “He hit a serve past me as an ace”.
“Of course I tried”. Though I was born here, the prospect of again living in an Australia where it was OK to call someone a “wog” and view them so narrowly was too terrifying to explain here.
The Canberra right-hander told reporters he felt misunderstood, due to “what you write about me”.
“I’m still learning to channel my emotions in the right way”, Kyrgios said. There’s a lot going on.
However, Kyrgios found a positive response as he raced into a 3-0 lead in the third before Gasquet found his range again to get back to 3-3. “Everyone now and then wants a hug”. “I’m mad at myself”.
Sport has been a wonderful past-time in Australia for as long as I can remember, and it has been an exhibition of this country’s values and expectations of which people of Australia should obey by, and follow to the letter.
This time, the people in Ms Fraser’s sights were Nick Kyrgios, the talented if brash tennis phenomenon Australia is struggling to embrace, and his compatriot Bernard Tomic.
“I don’t think there’s too many ways you can take what she said”.
“Guys like Lleyton Hewitt and Pat Rafter and these guys will be able to help with that”.
“I’m sure in the next few years he’ll start to calm down a bit”.
Kyrgios threw his customary tantrum, with the youngster tanking a game and risking disqualification.
Kyrgios responded to Fraser through on Tuesday, saying: “Throwing a racket, brat”.
“Maybe yourself, you can be frustrated and just not feel like it for a couple of points”.
Meanwhile Gasquet said he had nothing to complain about from Kyrgios’s alleged “tanking”.
Kyrgios today shocked the tennis world by declaring his turbulent two weeks at the All England Club has seen him question his future in the sport.
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The 77-year-old said: “I want to unreservedly apologise for any comments that I made this morning which may have caused offence to my fellow Australians including Nick and his family”. “I don’t know what happened”.
