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Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios has caused several explosions during him First round match He slammed into a line judge and spit in the direction of his father against the British wildcard Paul Jubb at the All England Club on Tuesday.
Kyrgios, 27, passed the jab despite dropping his first set, but seemed to be under pressure early in the match. Just 12 minutes later, Kyrgios ranted after a female line judge approached the chair referee and reported something. He said during the match.
“Did one come here to see her speak today? No,” Kyrgios told the chair’s referee. “Why is she doing that? No one in the stadium has seen her come to do anything. Not alone.”
He called the line judge a “snitch” and argued for what he was told after the match.
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“I didn’t do anything, so she went to the referee and told her what I didn’t say.” Kyrgios said via ESPN.. “She rushed to the referee in 30-love and she felt it was appropriate to accomplish it about her. In fact, no one met her today.”
He also worked on spitting in the direction of the fans who had been heckling him throughout the match.
“One of the people who looks down on me, yes. I don’t do that for those who support me,” he said. “I’ve been working on hatred and negativity for a long time, so I feel like I’m not liable to that person.”
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He continued. “He literally came to the match just to stir up rudeness, without even really supporting anyone. That’s fine, but if I give it back to you, that’s exactly it.”
Wimbledon Kyrgios favorite tournament.. He told reporters after the match that the problem he had was not in the tournament itself, but in the behavior of the fans.
“I love this tournament. Has nothing to do with Wimbledon.. I think it’s the people of the whole generation who feel the right to comment negatively on everything, like social media. It will only be carried over to real life. ”
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“There is a fence there and I’m in trouble, so I can’t say anything physically, I can’t say anything, just because I feel the need to say what I want to say,” he said.
Kyrgios will face the 26th-ranked Philip Krasilnovich on Thursday.