Nick Kyrgios has been fined $35,000 for his behaviour throughout a fourth-round loss to Jannik Sinner on the Miami Open through which he criticised the umpire and smashed his racket, the game’s governing ATP mentioned on Thursday.
After time and again berating umpire Carlos Bernardes for failing to regulate the gang on the Masters 1000 event on Tuesday, Kyrgios gained some extent penalty within the first set tiebreak for telling a chum within the stands he may just do a greater activity officiating.
The Australian wild card then gained a sport penalty – placing Italian Sinner up a ruin originally of the second one set – after time and again yelling “What’s unsportsmanlike?” to Bernardes, after which walked to his bench, the place he whacked his racket towards the court docket.
The ATP mentioned Kyrgios was once fined $5,000 for audible obscenity, $10,000 for unsportsmanlike behavior and $20,000 for verbal abuse.
Requested after the fit about his behaviour, Kyrgios defended his persona whilst railing towards the umpire.
“He’s no longer even going to get a slap at the wrist for his dreadful umpiring efficiency nowadays. Like, he was once horrendous,” mentioned the Australian.
The incident adopted an outburst at Indian Wells previous this month, the place Kyrgios misplaced his mood after dropping within the quarter-final to Rafa Nadal, smashing his racket to the bottom, which then bounced up and virtually hit a ball boy.
He apologised after the fit and was once fined $25,000.
