A few days ago, Greek tennis star Stefanos Tsitsipas collaborated with his basketball-playing compatriot, Giannis Antetokounmpo, as they took a friendly dig at Nick Kyrgios. Now, they have continued the banter with Kyrgios on social media.
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Tsitsipas and Antetokounmpo were relaxing on a beach in Greece and talked about Kyrgios. Tsitsipas, who is a good friend of Kyrgios, called the Australian player ‘nuts’. Antetokounmpo then went on to expresses his affection for Kyrgios, before joining Tsitsipas in calling him ‘nuts’.
“I love him, I do love him, I’m a big fan,” Antetokounmpo said about Kyrgios. “Bro, I was watching your 10 minutes of the madness of Kyrgios’ video. Bro, you’re nuts but I still love you.”
Stefanos and Giannis are on a Greek beach, eating souvlaki and roasting Nick Kyrgios. It doesn’t get more Greek than this https://t.co/qAhycK3tBE
— 👻 (@ultravoxing) October 20, 2020
Why Tsitsipas and Antetokounmpo called Nick Kyrgios ‘nuts’
Tsitsipas and Antetokounmpo referred to one of Kyrgios’ famous on-court outbursts as the two Greek sports stars had a nice laugh. During his match against Yoshihito Nishioka, at the Washington Open 2019, Kyrgios was fuming during a changeover after losing a game.
He then threw a water bottle in anger towards the on-court umpire’s chair. When the umpire confronted him about it, Kyrgios had simply said, “It slipped out of my hand.”
The recent banter was all in good spirits as Kyrgios himself shared a video of the Greek sportsmen trolling him and laughed at it.
Friendly banter continues
Tsitsipas and Antetokounmpo teased Kyrgios a few days ago as well in another video shared by Tsitsipas. The world number seven tennis player told his friend Kyrgios that Antetokounmpo had a message for him. The NBA star proceeded to say, “Well, Nick, you were my favorite tennis athlete. But now it’s Nadal because I just love him, sorry.”
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Tennis – French Open – Roland Garros, Paris, France – October 7, 2020 Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas celebrates winning his quarter final match against Russia’s Andrey Rublev REUTERS/Charles Platiau
Tsitsipas had also added a sarcastic sorry in that video. Kyrgios has a strained relationship with the Spanish tennis legend Rafael Nadal, and Tsitsipas found a good opportunity to take a dig at him for it.
Kyrgios replied to that video and laughed it off, saying, “Giannis and Stefanos play too much.”
While Kyrgios has had an off-court war of words with many tennis players, he gets along quite well with Tsitsipas. Interestingly, Kyrgios has won both matches the two have played on the ATP Tour.
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