Nick Kyrgios has been hit with a heavy penalty by umpire Carlos Bernardes, during his loss in Miami.
When it was over, Kyrgios was gracious with his opponent, shaking his hand at the net and exchanging a few pleasantries. Sinner then shook hands with Bernardes, as is tradition, but Kyrgios passed by him and got in a few more words before packing up his racket bag and walking off the court.
"I felt like I constantly played so much under that mental stress and negativity that I genuinely just couldn't function anymore with the pressure," Kyrgios said earlier this week. "I couldn't function with the negativity. Every day was just constant negativity from you guys, from eventually my family, eventually from my friends, from everyone. There was no positivity, and it was just eating me up and I just genuinely hated my life. It's taken a long time ...
"You're talking about me," Bernardes told Kyrgios, who insisted he was merely talking to a friend seated nearby."What's unsportsmanlike? What is unsportsmanlike?" he asked Bernardes repeatedly, before screaming that he wanted to talk to a tournament official. "Kyrgios has been given plenty of chances through the years and been cut plenty of slack by the tour," Clarey tweeted. "He is not a kid anymore. His misbehaviour on court is a clear pattern of behaviour. ATP is right to crack down."
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