Nick Kyrgios was angry with the Wimbledon umps for not giving him a default for hitting ball into crowd. There is a time and a place for it.
The Greek player called the Australian "bully" after he was beaten by him in a third-round match at Wimbledon.
Three code violations were issued during the match, one of which was for an audible obscenity, and two of which were for yelling at the other player.
After the match, the fourth-seeded Tsitsipas said that he was a bully at school and that he had an evil side.
"That's what he does; he's constantly bullied." The opponents are being bullied by him. He was a bully. I do not like being bullied. I don't like people who make other people feel bad.
If it's exposed, he has a very evil side to him, which can really do a lot of harm and bad to the people around him.
To say that I bullied him is just soft. We are not the same people. Guys who are competitors are the ones I go up against. If he's affected by that today, that's what's holding him back, because someone can just do that and that's going to ruin his game. I don't think it's very strong.
There was a close call at the end of the second set when a ball was thrown into the stands.
If he had done it, he would have been thrown out of the game, according to the man. He was unhappy with the chair umpire's response to the warning.
What are you talking about? The man asked the one who answered. Let's bring out more supervisors. I'm still going. Let's bring them all out. I don't pay much attention. I'm not playing until we know what's going on.
The ball was hit into the corner.
He said it was terrible from his side. I've never thrown the ball that way before. I apologized to everyone. I don't know what happened.
With all the circus shows going on the other side of the net, it became very tiring. It did happen. I didn't hurt anyone. Thank god, it hit the wall. I won't do that again. It's my job. There was something that made me see myself differently.
The issues with the chair umpire began when he was disturbed by a reversed call by a line judge and wanted that official removed.
Both players had a lot of shenanigans. The shots were deliberately hit at him by the other person.
He said after the match that he did not do anything wrong.
"I'm not sure what to say," he said. I don't know how I hurt him. He hit the balls at me. The person that hit the spectator was him. The person that hit it out of the stadium was him. I did nothing. I didn't do anything towards Stefanos today that was disrespectful because I just went back and forth to the umpire. I wasn't using balls to drill him.
The Greek star admitted to trying to hit the Australian, but he thinks there should be a rule in place to stop players from doing things like that.
"I feel like there's something going on on the other side of the net, every single point that I played today," he stated. I don't want to be distracted by that because I know he can play other ways. It's his way of making you feel like you're not paying attention.
There is no one else that does this. There is no other player like that. It causes it so quickly.
A match that took 3 hours, 17 minutes and was filled with drama was played on No. 1 Court.
He is very different. The Australian star is good for the sport and that's not a bad thing. I have never seen him behave that way in a match. You get tired of it at a certain point.
The constant chatter. Constantly complaining. The most important thing on the court is that there is no tennis being played. There is a group of people playing tennis. When you know that the referee is not going to overrule what he decides, we aren't there to have conversations with other people.
The AP contributed.
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