A woman in Nick Kyrgios’ player’s box wasn’t filling him with confidence as he told a team member to get rid of his girlfriend.
It took just two games for Nick Kyrgios to start muttering angrily to himself in his first round match at the Australian Open — before taking aim at someone’s girlfriend.
The Aussie failed to take advantage of a break point in the first game, then was broken in the second as Portugal’s Frederico Ferreira Silva took a 2-0 lead in the opening set.
Waiting to receive again, Kyrgios seemed to say it was “unbelievable” he’d coughed up an early lead and chastised himself for his early bungle.
“Are you awake? You’re saying one thing for two games,” Kyrgios said to himself.
His murmurings were followed by a marathon third game and after botching a seventh break point, Kyrgios shouted to a member of his entourage: “Tell your girlfriend to get out of my box.”
It’s unclear who the comment was directed at, though his brother Christos was seen in his box ahead of the match.
The vocal release seemed to work as Kyrgios finally broke back and then held serve for 2-2, before going on a roll to claim the opening set.
With his temper tantrums out of the way, Kyrgios could concentrate on playing somewhere near his best and when he locked in his serve he was unstoppable.
He got some rapid points off his own racquet — including a blistering 46-second hold in the eighth game of the second set — as he took a 6-4 6-4 lead.
It looked like Kyrgios would maintain the rage in the third but after being broken to love in the second game, he blew up again, appearing to yell at his box once more.
Thankfully it was just a minor speed bump and Kyrgios unleashed his full array of strokes — including an incredible drop shot tweener winner — as he motored to victory.
“It was special. I appreciate you guys coming out. Obviously very strange year last year. We all overcame it together to make this possible,” Kyrgios said when asked what it meant to be back on his favourite court in the world.
“I’m just super appreciative of you guys coming out. It was amazing. It felt normal, to be honest. You guys were going nuts, it was good to see. Hopefully we can continue to do it.”
He’s had a truncated lead-in to the year’s first grand slam as COVID-19 interrupted things but there were signs his temper was fraying as he played a warm up event in Melbourne last week.
Kyrgios struggled with a knee injury as he crashed to a straight sets defeat to Borna Coric at the Murray River Open on Friday. The 25-year-old received a warning for an expletive-laden tirade at 4-4 in the second set as f-bombs were the order of the day, then he cracked it completely after being broken, smashing his racquet and throwing it into the stands which, thankfully, were empty.
That dummy spit came after Kyrgios lost his cool in his second round match against Harry Bourchier, where he blew up about receiving a time violation and threatened to walk off the court.
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