The Nick Kyrgios Thread
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big ted
Legend
why did you post this redundance? now nobodys going to see my important post at the end of page 2
AndrewUtz
Semi-Pro
i’m sry !! pls post againwhy did you post this redundance? now nobodys going to see my important post at the end of page 2
Rosstour
G.O.A.T.
Wow. What a watch
Yeah
Rosstour
G.O.A.T.
if this video becomes viral i think sponsors will drop kyrgios
I think his 15 minutes are almost up
Winner Sinner
Hall of Fame
Roddick puts Kyrgios against the wall: “He has become an influencer and he is a hypocrite. Does the context of the situations only apply to him?”
Enough is enough. Andy Roddick did not appreciate at all the insinuations about him made by Nick Kyrgios in one of his “verbal eruptions”, so much so that he responded in kind, or rather bluntly, during his very popular podcast “Served with A-Rod”. The latest American Slam champion (US Open 2003) forcefully rejects the Australian’s suspicion that the defense of Sinner and Swiatek on the positive cases derives from Andy’s alleged shadows on the doping side, and then throws a symbolic uppercut at Nick on the issue of bullying and fairness. From what pulpit does Kyrgios allow himself to pollute the social page of a 16-year-old boy (Cruz Hewitt) for having “dared” to train with the world number 1, committing a real act of bullying, when he admitted to having been bullied, to hating bullying, and even more to having taken drugs and molested his girlfriend at the time? Understanding the context of the situations therefore only applies to himself? We report the words of Roddick, real boulders hurled against the Australian…
“A few weeks ago, and this is something that borders on defamation, Nick insinuated that during my career I had taken doping substances to improve my performance because I chose to understand and explain the context of the Iga Swiatek case, trying to provide some nuance on the matter, and because I stated that perhaps the anti-doping protocols are too rigid. Kyrgios claims that if you test positive you should be banned forever… but it seems he has never tested positive…”
“That’s something that really bothered me,” Roddick continues, now going on the attack. “Nick wants the Likes, he wants the interactions. He’s a tennis influencer right now. He lives for and because of the Likes, to be strong in the comments section. He obviously likes this position. Mind you, what I’m going to say is not an exaggeration: he’s one of the most talented tennis players I’ve ever seen. His magic is on par with the Big Three when he’s played at his best; however, the part of Kyrgios that I can’t stand is the hypocrisy with which he chooses when to judge people.”
Andy then goes on to harshly comment on the indecent response to Cruz Hewitt’s photo, with emojis of syringes, broken hearts and so on, a fact that unleashed a flurry of social “trolls” on the Australian teenager’s page. “Kyrgios was the one who criticized Sinner the most explicitly. Yes, it’s true that Sinner failed two anti-doping tests. This is a fact that will always be there. Now you can make the decision to look at the context and understand, appreciate that there are cases and cases, very different from each other, and maybe if this is well explained it will allow people to better understand each situation, and some even give them the benefit of the doubt. Kyrgios says no: he is a drug addict, and that is why he posts needles in the comments of a 16-year-old, perfect... Kyrgios enters a boy's social space and turns it into something about himself, saying that they thought they were brothers, blah blah blah…
His defense to these posts is that it was all a joke, but the insensitivity you show by leaving that comment, filling a 16-year-old’s post with trolls, the worst side of tennis fans… it’s absurd. Absurd. Why do I say this? You Nick are someone who pleaded guilty to assaulting your girlfriend, and in your case you want people to understand your context, saying you were in a bad moment, that you were taking drugs. Mind you, you will always be the boy who pleaded guilty to assaulting a woman, just as Sinner will always be a boy who failed a drug test.”
“Now: do we choose to give context to your actions or not? I would never cross the line that you crossed, but you always wanted people to understand the time and place in your life in which it happened: it doesn’t make it acceptable, but it tries to show that that is not you, that you are not a molester. You always said that you were the winner of bullying, that you suffered mentally from the insults received from the press and from people’s comments… and now what do you do? You accuse me of doping and you want people to understand that what you did was because of the bullying you suffered? It’s pure and simple hypocrisy”.
Roddick doesn’t mince his words, he dots the i’s. Above all he puts NK against the wall, facing his own responsibilities given all the talking, accusing and spreading venom without demonstrating the will to understand the context of the situations and the facts themselves. A harsh speech, but absolutely frank that of A-Rod, who this time really fired a winning Ace…
Enough is enough. Andy Roddick did not appreciate at all the insinuations about him made by Nick Kyrgios in one of his “verbal eruptions”, so much so that he responded in kind, or rather bluntly, during his very popular podcast “Served with A-Rod”. The latest American Slam champion (US Open 2003) forcefully rejects the Australian’s suspicion that the defense of Sinner and Swiatek on the positive cases derives from Andy’s alleged shadows on the doping side, and then throws a symbolic uppercut at Nick on the issue of bullying and fairness. From what pulpit does Kyrgios allow himself to pollute the social page of a 16-year-old boy (Cruz Hewitt) for having “dared” to train with the world number 1, committing a real act of bullying, when he admitted to having been bullied, to hating bullying, and even more to having taken drugs and molested his girlfriend at the time? Understanding the context of the situations therefore only applies to himself? We report the words of Roddick, real boulders hurled against the Australian…
“A few weeks ago, and this is something that borders on defamation, Nick insinuated that during my career I had taken doping substances to improve my performance because I chose to understand and explain the context of the Iga Swiatek case, trying to provide some nuance on the matter, and because I stated that perhaps the anti-doping protocols are too rigid. Kyrgios claims that if you test positive you should be banned forever… but it seems he has never tested positive…”
“That’s something that really bothered me,” Roddick continues, now going on the attack. “Nick wants the Likes, he wants the interactions. He’s a tennis influencer right now. He lives for and because of the Likes, to be strong in the comments section. He obviously likes this position. Mind you, what I’m going to say is not an exaggeration: he’s one of the most talented tennis players I’ve ever seen. His magic is on par with the Big Three when he’s played at his best; however, the part of Kyrgios that I can’t stand is the hypocrisy with which he chooses when to judge people.”
Andy then goes on to harshly comment on the indecent response to Cruz Hewitt’s photo, with emojis of syringes, broken hearts and so on, a fact that unleashed a flurry of social “trolls” on the Australian teenager’s page. “Kyrgios was the one who criticized Sinner the most explicitly. Yes, it’s true that Sinner failed two anti-doping tests. This is a fact that will always be there. Now you can make the decision to look at the context and understand, appreciate that there are cases and cases, very different from each other, and maybe if this is well explained it will allow people to better understand each situation, and some even give them the benefit of the doubt. Kyrgios says no: he is a drug addict, and that is why he posts needles in the comments of a 16-year-old, perfect... Kyrgios enters a boy's social space and turns it into something about himself, saying that they thought they were brothers, blah blah blah…
His defense to these posts is that it was all a joke, but the insensitivity you show by leaving that comment, filling a 16-year-old’s post with trolls, the worst side of tennis fans… it’s absurd. Absurd. Why do I say this? You Nick are someone who pleaded guilty to assaulting your girlfriend, and in your case you want people to understand your context, saying you were in a bad moment, that you were taking drugs. Mind you, you will always be the boy who pleaded guilty to assaulting a woman, just as Sinner will always be a boy who failed a drug test.”
“Now: do we choose to give context to your actions or not? I would never cross the line that you crossed, but you always wanted people to understand the time and place in your life in which it happened: it doesn’t make it acceptable, but it tries to show that that is not you, that you are not a molester. You always said that you were the winner of bullying, that you suffered mentally from the insults received from the press and from people’s comments… and now what do you do? You accuse me of doping and you want people to understand that what you did was because of the bullying you suffered? It’s pure and simple hypocrisy”.
Roddick doesn’t mince his words, he dots the i’s. Above all he puts NK against the wall, facing his own responsibilities given all the talking, accusing and spreading venom without demonstrating the will to understand the context of the situations and the facts themselves. A harsh speech, but absolutely frank that of A-Rod, who this time really fired a winning Ace…
I generally like Roddick's points and he is not wrong about Kyrgios really - but the differential treatment of Sinner's doping case (and Iga's) from what happens all the time to lower level players has been largely glossed over as the establishment does not want some of their golden figures tainted. While done with NK's typical bluntness, he does correctly point out how ludicrously this was handled
And everybody pleading: please come to Rome for the internazionali…. LOL
Rosstour
G.O.A.T.
That's a bad transcript. Not what he said precisely
celito
Professional
Andy spot on.
Bride of Alcaraz
Semi-Pro
LOL, Kyrgios' 1st Round AO opponent Fearnley has played a total of FIVE atp matches
MichaelNadal
Bionic Poster
Watching now, he’s dragging him lol
