The rant went on throughout the match and got to the point where he looked at James and said, You guys are the absolute pits of the world. He regularly berated and abused chair umpire Fergus Murphy during the match.Īt one point, Kyrgios left the court without permission for a bathroom break, only to be captured on television smashing two of his racquets in a corridor under the stands.Īt the conclusion of the match he called the umpire a "f***ing tool" before spitting in his direction. Chalk came up all over the place, McEnroe said. In total Kyrgios was fined $166,000, the biggest financial penalty in the history of men's professional tennis. The ATP found him in breach of eight offences for his behaviour during his second-round loss to Russian eighth seed Karen Khachanov at the Cincinnati Masters. Unsportsmanlike conduct - point penalty ($29,512)įor all of Kyrgios's obvious talent, his achievements pale compared to McEnroe and yet he's racking up sanctions at a rate no player in history can match.This is extremely rare in professional tennis, even taking John McEnroe's history into account." Breaking down the fines: Kyrgios v Khachanov If you are over the age of 30, John McEnroe is likely known to you as the infamously brash tennis hall-of. Nick Kyrgios by comparison really belittles the officials. McEnroe is the narrator of the Netflix coming-of-age comedy Never Have I Ever. I just found him to get quite angry from time to time. "I never found him (McEnroe) to be threatening.
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