Nick Kyrgios pulls out of U.S. Open, rips other tennis players in Instagram video

Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios posted a video to the Uninterrupted Instagram account on Saturday in which he announced that he would be pulling out of the U.S. Open, citing concerns for safety with the global COVID-19 pandemic.

“We can rebuild our sport and the economy,” Kyrgios says in the video, “but we can never recover lives lost.”

Kyrgios <a href=" He chastised players for “dancing on tables, money grabbing your way around Europe, trying to make a quick buck hosting an exhibition.” You can watch the entire video below: