Tennis star Stefanos Tsitsipas has poured gasoline on the hearth of his rivalry with Australian Nick Kyrgios.
Tsitsipas and Kyrgios have endured a vibrant previous and the Greek star determined this spicy feud wanted one other chapter.
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In upcoming episodes of Netflix’s tennis sequence Break Point, the 24-year-old took intention on the Australian star.
His heated phrases got here within the wake of their heated showdown throughout the third spherical at Wimbledon final yr when Kyrgios received the job completed in a fiery four-sets.
During the competition the Canberra native requested his opponent be defaulted after he hit a ball into the gang and appeared to hit somebody.
The two males lobbed grenades at each other throughout their respective press conferences, accusing one another of being within the fallacious throughout the explosive conflict.
Tsitsipas has now reignited the ugly feud with recent remarks within the wake of Wimbledon coming to gentle in new episodes set to air subsequent week.
“He has brought that NBA basketball attitude to tennis. I would describe it as an uneducated approach of playing tennis. But you know tennis is a gentleman’s sport, it’s all about respect. We are not playing basketball. I feel he was trying to destroy my rhythm. He kept putting his towel in my box,” Tsitsipas stated.
“There was zero respect coming out of my opponent that day. He kept pressing my buttons none stop – and of course I got annoyed. He just loves attention. And if he gets none of that, it is complete destruction.”
Tsitsipas swiped his rival on social media on the finish of final yr after Kyrgios withdrew from the United Cup.
Kyrgios pulled out of the blended groups occasion on the eve of the inaugural event, to be held in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth.
Despite swirling strategies Kyrgios had merely snubbed the occasion, Aussie nice Wally Masur stated on Thursday Kyrgios’ damage administration was a really respectable excuse.
Tsitsipas’ response to the news was considerably completely different.
“It is not a surprise, I hope he enjoys his holidays,” Tsitsipas stated in Perth.
The Australian star made an eye-opening revelation throughout the sequence when he acknowledged he was admitted to a London psychiatric ward throughout Wimbledon in 2019, and was considering taking his personal life.
He stated 2019 was “the lowest point of my career” and he performed the event with a white sleeve on one arm to cover proof that he’d been self harming.
“I was genuinely contemplating if I wanted to commit suicide,” Kyrgios stated.
“I lost at Wimbledon. I woke up and my dad was sitting on the bed, full-blown crying. That was the big wake-up call for me. I was like, OK, I can’t keep doing this. I ended up in a psych ward in London to figure out my problems.”
Kyrgios’ long-time supervisor and good friend Daniel Horsfall stated he was “f**ked” and the tennis star cried whereas telling him: “Bro, I don’t know what to do. I don’t want to be here.”
Kyrgios stated he “hated the kind of person I was” and couldn’t take care of the expectation.
“I was drinking, abusing drugs, lost my relationship with my family, pushed all my close friends away,” he stated.
“You could tell I was hurting. My whole arm was covered in scars. That’s why I actually got my arm sleeve. To cover it all.”
Part 2 of Netflix’s Break Point is about to air on June 21 whereas Wimbledon is about to get underway on July 3.
Source: www.news.com.au
