Friends, friends and then … And then Nick Kyrgios and Stefanos Tsitsipas give each other a good reason, throw balls at the audience, throw themselves at each other, ask for the disqualification of the other, rejoice after the tapes, do “trash talk”, protest with the chair judge and even take it out on the line judges. But when, in the fourth set, only tennis is played, it is a true spectacle. It all happens on Field 1 at Wimbledon and in the end the Australian won in four sets, beating the Greek for the fourth time in his career out of five games – Stefanos’ only victory came in the Laver Cup -, he reaches the round of 16 and is even more candidate to be a possible protagonist until the end, keeping his mind permitting. Final score is 6-7 6-4 6-3 7-6: Kyrgios finds Brandon Nakashima in the round of 16.
Kyrgios protests with the judge of the chair for the Tsitsipas gesture
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The fuse lights up at the end of the second set, when Kyrgios protests and no one understands why. “He can’t play, the game has to end.” It looks like a head shot, but the images then show Tsitsipas’ throwing the ball: risky. The fact is that – we said – Stefanos dirties a game that he should keep as calm as possible. Thus comes out the worst side of his character, which is also strong despite being often dormant unlike that of the opponent: in the fourth game of the third set is the break of Kyrgios, in the following game Nick serves from below 40-0, Tsitsipas arrives on the ball and throws it towards the audience. Penalty pointStefanos protests and accuses: “On the other side there is a player who prevents me from playing tennis”. The Greek goes out of his head and starts aiming at the opponent every time he has the possibility, even at the cost of sending the ball out of the field. For his part, Kyrgios in the ninth game – the last of the set – finds two ribbons in favor. Apologies? Not at all. Cheers, if anything.
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The fourth set is the one in which more than the others you can appreciate the extraordinary level of tennis of the two contenders, who both find themselves having to save break points – four Kyrgios, six Tsitsipas – before reaching the tie break, complete with a pause for close the roof. But the protagonist is always the Australian: he seems to get hurt after the first game, jokes about a long answer from Tsitsipas (“good answer”) and takes it out on his corner when things don’t go well. In the end, Nick wins, the man who led the game to his side. And now he can go all the way: now there will be Brandon Nakashima, then possibly Alex de Minaur or Chirstian Garin.
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