Watch tennis bad boy Nick Kyrgios’ incredible on-court bust-up with umpire over a WHITE TOWEL
ANGRY Nick Kyrgios had a bizarre row with the chair umpire over a WHITE TOWEL as he lost to Britain’s Kyle Edmund at the Rogers Cup.
Days after winning the Citi Open in Washington, the Aussie tennis bad-boy was once again arguing with officials over petty matters.
The 24-year-old lost his cool after just five games and unleashed a verbal tirade when he realised he did not have a white towel to use at the changeover.
Kyrgios had asked the umpire for one at the start of the match because he was unhappy he had to use a tournament branded towel.
The world No27 raged: “You have a radio, I asked you at the start of the match.
“You’re telling me you can’t radio in just for one white towel? ‘Hey physio room, can I have one white towel?’ You didn’t think that?”
The umpire responded: “I’m not allowed to leave the chair.”
Kyrgios was also hit with a code violation for an obscenity before finally receiving the towel from a ball boy after 20 minutes of action.
After the match, he told reporters: “I’m f***ing frustrated man, a f***ing white towel…I asked him, how hard is it. It’s a white towel, five games for a white towel.”
KYRGIOS CRUMBLES
Edmund did not face a break point as he won 6-3 6-4 in a match which was delayed by almost 90 minutes due to a rain interruption in the second set.
In the third game of the second set, there was a moment of hilarity when Kyrgios attempted an underarm serve which forced Edmund to rush forward to no avail.
In the Last 32 in Montreal, Edmund will now play Russian Daniil Medvedev, who lost to Kyrgios in Sunday’s final in Washington.
During his Citi Open last-16 tie against Yoshihito Nishioka last week, Kyrgios threw his water bottle in disgust at the umpire’s chair.
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He later claimed it slipped out of his hand but it was the latest in a long line of flash points.
The fiery ace has regularly clashes with Rafa Nadal over his underarm serves.
And Kyrgios has smashed countless rackets, sworn at umpires and blasted his fellow pros in a colourful career.