Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas criticized the “evil side” of Australian Nick Kyrgios, who knocked out the world No. 6 from the third round of Wimbledon, the third Grand Slam tournament, after a fierce match that ended 6-7 (2-7). and 6-4, 6-3 and 7-6 (9-7) on Friday nights.

As usual, the world No. 40 Australian continued his “riot” in a match that saw a lot of objections, arguments and insults from the 27-year-old, who reached the fourth round for the first time on an All-England court. since 2016.

Kyrgios asked the referee to send off Tsitsipas after hitting the ball into the crowd after losing the second set, recalling an incident at the 2020 US Open when Novak Djokovic was ruled out for inadvertently hitting the ball towards the line.

“You can’t send a ball into the crowd and hit someone without punishment,” said Kyrgios, whose best record remains at Wimbledon, having reached the quarter-finals in his first participation in 2014.

The Australian continued his objections to the referee, which clearly affected the concentration of Tsitsipas, who was cautioned for hitting the ball towards the crowd, and later penalized for hitting the ball again, but this time not towards the crowd.

The two players spoke of their “fight” at the press conference that followed the match, where Tsitsipas called the match a “circus”, admitting he tried to kick the ball towards Kyrgios to hit him.

He continued, “He mocks the competition. Maybe he was a bully at school. I don’t like bullies. I don’t like people who put others down. has a very evil side, which, if revealed, can cause much harm and misfortune to the people around him.

Tsitsipas hoped that the players would be able to “cooperate among themselves to establish a law” restricting Kyrgios’ behavior because “no other player does that. No other player gets offended or upset all the time about something. very fast.”

But Kyrgios ridiculed Tsitsipas’ accusations of continuing to keep him at Wimbledon, where he only missed the first round twice in five, in 2018 (dropped out in the fourth round) and this year, and described his Greek opponent as a “soft oud” .

“We’re not the same type. I’m up against men who are real rivals,” he said. , he (Tsitsipas) is not Mahbub.

But history does not support Kyrgios in terms of popularity, sportsmanship and behavior on the field, and the list of his sporting and moral transgressions is long since he began his professional career in 2012, most notably in the 2015 Montreal tournament when he was against the Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka in the second round.

Kyrgios tried to influence the opponent, telling him that his girlfriend was having an affair with another player, but Wawrinka did not hear what the Australian said, except that the words of the latter appeared on the tape that was shown on TV channels, and the Swiss was notified of this, and he demanded severe punishment for his opponent.

The PGA filed and fined a player who angered other players such as Djokovic, who said at the time, “Nothing justifies taking anger out on an opponent and it is required to maintain respect for the players and the sport.” .”