Wimbledon, England – Nick Kyrgios curses the Wimbledon chair umpire and asks, “Are you dumb?”
He tried to meet a Grand Slam observer after his opponent, Stefanos Tsitsipas, asked why he had lost his always-controversial, ever-boring match for hitting the ball stand in anger after skipping the second set. .
Kyrgios was dissatisfied with the response.
“What are you talking about, brother?” Kyrgios asked. “And bring in a supervisor. I haven’t. Take them all out. I don’t care. … I won’t play until you get to the bottom of it.”
Unexpectedly, unseeded Kyrgios continued the game by defeating fourth-seeded Sitsipas 6-7 (2), 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (7) and reached the fourth round at the All England Club for the first time. Since 2016.
There were a lot of actions and words. Kyrgios hit from the underarm – including one in his legs – three shots Tsitsipas deliberately hit him. Chair umpire Damien Dumusois violated a total of three rules, one for obscenity heard on Kyrgios and two for misusing the ball on Sitsipas, earning a point penalty.
There were also some spectacular tennis along the way, with players collecting 118 winners. It all took 3 hours, 17 minutes with a faint moment and it ended so late that the retractable roof on Court No. 1 was closed and artificial lights were installed in the middle of the fourth set.
Tsitsipas maintained a pair of set points to force fifth, but Kyrgios saved both by winning a half-volley after a serve and a volley on the second serve.
Kyrgios, a 27-year-old Australian, replaced his second match with a point drop shot and then roared. Kyrgios, who has played in two Grand Slam semifinals, has always shown such skill.
On Saturday, during the change in the middle of the fourth set, Kyrgios sat in his chair and was barking with a banana bite. He did not know what he was shouting.
He has already been fined $ 10,000 by the tournament for playing during the first round match of the tournament, which he spat in the direction of the spectators and said he was harassing them.
His argument with the chair umpire began in the first set, when he was annoyed by a reverse call by a line judge and wanted to remove the officer.
After Kyrgios won the second set, Tsitsipas turned the ball to the crowd with his backhand. The ball hit the wall, but it was not entirely clear who it hit.
This was just a warning, which did not sit well with Kyrgios.
“You can’t hit the ball in the crowd and you can’t hit someone and there’s no default, which is inadvertently hit by the ball,” Kyrgios said, featuring Novak Djokovic at the 2020 US Open. He was then thrown out of the match. He is doing it. Judge a line in the neck.
At one point, Kyrgios said to the chair umpire: “You don’t know how to play, so you don’t tell me how to play? ऊ Brother, people want to see me, not you.
Kyrgios will face Brandon Nakashima on Monday for a place in the quarterfinals. Nakashima is one of four American men in the fourth round, the most at Wimbledon since 1999.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.