Nick Kyrgios has been fined $35,000 for his habits throughout a fourth-round loss to Jannik Sinner on the Miami Open during which he criticized the umpire and smashed his racket, the game’s governing ATP mentioned on Thursday.
After repeatedly berating umpire Carlos Bernardes for failing to manage the group on the Masters 1000 match on Tuesday, Kyrgios obtained some extent penalty within the first set tiebreak for telling a good friend within the stands he might do a greater job officiating.
The Australian wild card then obtained a recreation penalty – placing Italian Sinner up a break in the beginning of the second set – after repeatedly yelling “What is unsportsmanlike?” to Bernardes, after which walked to his bench, the place he whacked his racket towards the courtroom.
The ATP mentioned Kyrgios was fined $5,000 for audible obscenity, $10,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct and $20,000 for verbal abuse.
Asked after the match about his behaviour, Kyrgios defended his character whereas railing towards the umpire.
“He’s not even going to get a slap on the wrist for his dreadful umpiring efficiency as we speak. Like, he was horrendous,” mentioned the Australian.
The incident adopted an outburst at Indian Wells earlier this month, the place Kyrgios misplaced his mood after shedding within the quarter-final to Rafa Nadal, smashing his racket to the bottom, which then bounced up and nearly hit a ball boy.
He apologised after the match and was fined $25,000.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
