Congratulations to Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios’s little red hat, which has really rumpled Wimbledon’s crisply starched polos
Photo: Javier Garcia/Shutterstock . On Sunday, the tennis player wore a red baseball cap to accept his second-place trophy, which apparently launched him into the upper echelons of British scandal.
Kyrgios observed the all-whites rule for the rest of Wimbledon, including during his match with Novak Djokovic, but he caused yet another round of uproar during that match by swearing in front of Prince George and his business suit. After the match, Kyrgios wore the same red Air Jordan hat to accept his second-place trophy from Kate Middleton, prompting outrage from a few tennis diehards who deemed this act a “disgrace,” a “final act of defiance,” and, tellingly, an “insult to tradition.
The elitist history of the sport’s traditions isn’t lost on Kyrgios, who is Greek and Malay. In a 2020 interview, he pointed out that tennis “is supposed to be a nice white gentleman’s sport.” He continued, “Seeing someone colored like myself go out there and be different and successful, it’s not so easy to see at times.”
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