Tag: Nick Kyrgios

Nick Kyrgios rips Novak Djokovic’s ‘boneheaded’ Adria Tour amid coronavirus outbreak

Bad look for Djokovic.

As the rest of the sports world was either in lockdown or cautiously returning with closed-door matches, tennis star Novak Djokovic instead opted to host an exhibition tournament, the “Adria Tour,” that basically ignored the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

On Sunday, the reality of the pandemic hit the Adria Tour.

The final of the exhibition event in Croatia was canceled after Bulgarian tennis star Grigor Dimitrov announced that he had tested positive for the coronavirus. Dimitrov had played on Saturday and traveled back to Monaco after experiencing symptoms. He played in a pickup basketball game with Djokovic and other tennis stars on Thursday. Borna Coric later announced that he also contracted COVID-19.

The tennis world heavily criticized the tournament — which has already included stops in Belgrade and Zadar — as it was being planned. Once the worst-case scenario unfolded, Nick Kyrgios took to Twitter to criticize Djokovic once again.

Djokovic’s fitness coach Marco Panichi was also among the Adria Tour participants to test positive for the coronavirus. But despite Djokovic’s close contact with COVID-positive people, Djokovic has elected to not be tested.

None of this is a good look for Djokovic. And let’s hope the situation doesn’t get any worse.

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Nick Kyrgios joins a chorus of tennis pros worried about safety at U.S. Open

Players are worried about their safety.

Nick Kyrgios already said on June 11 that U.S. Open organizers were “selfish with everything going on at the moment” as plans were going ahead for the annual grand slam tournament to take place in New York City as the coronavirus pandemic and daily protests over police reform continued.

And with news on Tuesday that the tournament would be on — both the USTA and New York governor Andrew Cuomo gave it the green light with a list of “extraordinary precautions” that will be taken — Kyrgios tweeted using the same word.

“People that live in the US of course are pushing the Open to go ahead,” he wrote.”‘Selfish’ I’ll get my hazmat suit ready for when I travel from Australia and then have to quarantine for 2 weeks on my return.”

But he isn’t the only one concerned about playing in the tournament. Here are some other pros who have weighed in:

Novak Djokovic

He told Serbian’s RTS, “At the moment the measures in force are very severe….These are pretty extreme conditions and I don’t know if they are sustainable. Most of the players I’ve talked to so far have a rather negative view of the possibility of going.

“Of course,” he continued, “we would all like to return to the courts as soon as possible and play tournaments, the ones before the US Open and the US Open and I hope they will take place but there has to be a compromise between the organizers and the players. We’ll see if it will happen.”

Ash Barty

The world’s No. 1 player told the Associated Press “I have concerns too. I understand the tournaments are eager to run but keeping everyone safe has to be the priority.”

Simona Halep

She told the New York Times this:

“I definitely have strong concerns about going there with those conditions,” she said. “Not only because we’re in the middle of a global pandemic but also because of the risk of travel, potential quarantine and then the changes around the tournament.

“We are used to things operating very differently and it would not be an easy transition at all, particularly on our bodies. I know that financially the tournament and sponsors would like it to run and also that many players are out of jobs right now, but I think it’s a very personal decision we have to make. It’s important to understand that everyone has individual needs and circumstances and we should do what’s best for our personal health and also think long term about our career.”

Rafael Nadal

He told reporters on a call (via the New York Times) earlier this month “Well, is not an ideal situation, honestly no. If you ask me today if I want to travel today to New York to play a tennis tournament, I will say no, I will not.”

“In a couple of months I don’t know how the situation is going to improve,” he added. “Hopefully it’s going to improve the right way, and I’m sure the people who organize the event, the U.S.T.A., want a safe event, same like the French federation.”

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Este tenista comparte que mantiene relaciones sexuales con sus fans con regularidad

El tenista australiano Nick Kyrgios se ha ganado la fama de chico malo dentro del tenis. Y es que en el deporte blanco sus jugadores brillan por ser serios y discretos. Sin embargo Kyrgios prefiere aprovechar su fama para disfrutar de la vida de una …

El tenista australiano Nick Kyrgios se ha ganado la fama de chico malo dentro del tenis. Y es que en el deporte blanco sus jugadores brillan por ser serios y discretos. Sin embargo Kyrgios prefiere aprovechar su fama  para disfrutar de la vida de una estrella.

Y como buen rockstar, no teme compartir detalles Ă­ntimos y tampoco pierde la oportunidad de un ligue pasajero.

A travĂŠs de su cuenta de Twich, donde Kyrgios suma una buena base de seguidores, un usuario le preguntĂł sobre si suele mantener relaciones Ă­ntimas con sus fans. Ante esto, el tenista respondiĂł que claro, incluso confesĂł que a veces durante juegos ve a una chica linda en las tribunas y lamenta no poder dejar todo a un lado para pedirle salir por tragos.

“SĂ­. En serio, sĂ­ no estoy viendo a alguien es algo normal. (En una ocasiĂłn) estaba cortando a Federer y pensĂŠ, ‘maldiciĂłn’. QuerĂ­a llevarla a tomar una copa”, detallĂł Kyrgios.

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Tennis star Nick Kyrgios gets tattoo of LeBron James and Kobe Bryant

It turns out that the 24-year old tennis star from Australia is a pretty big Lakers fan and he has it documented on his arm now.

During the current hiatus of sports around the world, sports fans have more time to reflect on the favorite things that we’ve seen in our sports past as the resumption of sports in the future remains on an uncertain timeline. Playing classic games on network television has been a regular occurrence, including Sunday afternoon when they showed Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals on ABC. We at LeBron Wire have taken to watching LeBron’s Finals career in its entirety during the hiatus, but in the case of Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios, he wanted something a little more permanent.

Kyrgios, who is presumably a huge Lakers fan, got a sleeve-length tattoo of both LeBron James and the late Kobe Bryant.

While Kyrgios showed off his new ink on his channels, it looks like he was also repping his Australian countryman Ben Simmons by wearing one of his Philadelphia 76ers uniforms. So, perhaps Kyrgios is less of a Lakers fan and more of a fan of great players, but there’s no doubting his dedication.

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Nick Kyrgios calls Australian Open chair umpire ‘stupid’ after unnecessary time violation

This time, Nick Kyrgios is absolutely right to be mad.

Nick Kyrgios is no stranger to controversial moments or arguments with chair umpires. In the last year, the 24-year-old Australian tennis player had a meltdown at the Italian Open and threw a chair on the court, he drilled Rafael Nadal with the ball at Wimbledon and he smashed two rackets and yelled at the chair umpire at the Cincinnati Open.

So the fact that he got into it with the chair umpire during his third-round match at the Australian Open on Saturday isn’t super unusual. The difference this time appears to be that Kyrgios was entirely on the correct side of the spat.

During the fourth set of his four-hour, 26-minute match against Karen Khachanov, Kyrgios dove for the ball and won the point with an incredible shot. However, he injured his hand and was slow to get up.

His hand was also bleeding a little, so rather than toss his towel with blood on it back to the ball person, Kyrgios set it aside himself. But all that apparently took too much time for umpire Renaud Lichtenstein, who dealt Kyrgios a time violation.

Understandably, Kyrgios was not happy and threw his racket on the court while explaining to the umpire that his hand was bleeding.

“My hand is bleeding. My hand is bleeding. What do you want me to do? … There’s blood all over the towel. I told the ball kid not to touch it. That’s all I said. …

“What are you, stupid? Can you not see? Well, take it back then. Why do I get a time violation? My hand’s bleeding.”

Kyrgios then showed Lichtenstein the towel and said, “Is that good enough for you?”

And, according to ESPN, he later said to the umpire: “Don’t look at me, do your job. You think I’m going to play that slow, or what?”

Kyrgios’ hand after he wiped it off with a towel the first time.

No, in fact, Kyrgios doesn’t generally take his time and has been known to get annoyed when his opponents do, like in his controversial 2019 Wimbledon match against Nadal when he was mad the umpire let Nadal take as long as he did between serves. (He even mocked Nadal’s famous pre-serve movements earlier in the tournament after another time violation.)

So while Kyrgios often escalates situations and makes headlines for the wrong reasons, he’s right with this one — although it’s generally not advisable to call the chair umpire stupid. But he didn’t take an absurd amount of time to get back to the baseline, and even if he did, he had a pretty solid excuse.

He ended up beating Khachanov,  6-2, 7-6, 6-7, 6-7, 7-6 (8), in what he called “one of the craziest matches [he’s] ever been a part of” after dropping match points in the third and fourth sets.

In his press conference after, Kyrgios said his hand was “squirting blood,” adding:

“I’m not really too sure why I got a time violation. I just made sure the ball kid wasn’t touching my towel with blood on it. And then, the umpire just had no idea what was going on apparently. My hand’s usually brown, and it was covered in blood, so something wrong there.”

Next up for Kyrgios in the fourth round of the Australian Open is Nadal. Perfect.

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