Nick Kyrgios opened a cheeky Twitter poll Monday asking what variety of years he could be banned if he had hit an official with a ball, after 17-time Grand Slam winner Novak Djokovic’s default at the US Open. The Australian has waged a working battle with the Serb in present months over his ill-fated Adria Tour exhibition sequence, lashing out on the world major’s “stupidity” after a variety of players contracted coronavirus. And he was quick to have his say after Djokovic was sensationally disqualified from the US Open for hitting a girl line resolve throughout the throat with a ball bashed away in disgust after dropping his serve.
The combustible Kyrgios, who was hit with a suspended 16-week ban last 12 months for a sequence of on-court outbursts, jumped onto social media to ask his followers what would happen if he had hit the street resolve.
“Swap me for jokers incident,” he talked about, using Djokovic’s nickname.
“‘By chance hitting the ball youngster throughout the throat.’ What variety of years would I be banned for?” requested the Australian.
The alternatives given had been 5, 10 or 20 years with the poll attracting larger than 60,000 options in its first hour, with the majority voting for 20 years.
America Tennis Affiliation talked about Djokovic, who apologised, would lose all score elements and prize money from the match.
Whereas most took the Kyrgios’s tweet as a light-hearted dig, not everyone was impressed.
“Slight distinction: you most likely did so much worse,” well-known one client, whereas one different wrote: “An identical penalty as Djoko. Stop victimising your self, get on with it.”
The ATP opened a probe into Nick Kyrgios last 12 months following an explosive meltdown on the Cincinnati Masters the place he smashed two racquets and launched into an abusive tirade on the chair umpire sooner than displaying to spit on the official.
He was fined US$113,000 for ball abuse, leaving the courtroom with out permission, an audible obscenity and unsportsmanlike conduct all through his loss to Russia’s Karen Khachanov.
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Whereas Kyrgios was penalised for the Cincinnati outbursts, he prevented further punishment for calling the ATP “pretty corrupt” in the middle of the 2019 US Open after he “clarified” his comment.
Kyrgios, ranked merely 40 nevertheless a large drawcard, opted to remain in Canberra and by no means play this 12 months’s US Open because of pandemic.
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