Nick Kyrgios Blasts Australian Media For Showing Him in Negative Light

Published 08/01/2019, 12:09 PM EDT

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World Number 52, Nick Kyrgios is through to Citi Open’s round of 16, after defeating Thai-Son Kwiatkowski and Gilles Simon. The Australian was recently in conversation with Kelyn Soong from Washington City Paper, over there, the fickle-minded tennis player addressed his relationship with the media, and how he perceives them. He also criticized the Australian media for promoting false news.

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Straightforwardly, Kyrgios gainsaid the role of media and mentioned about them exaggerating newscasts and floating misleading content with a purpose to seek attention amongst the public.

“I don’t like it. I don’t like the media in general,” Nick Kyrios said. “I think they try to spin things the way they want people to see them. They generally give a lot of false information and make people see one side of the things.”

Not just in tennis, the drill of posting deceptive information is taking place in most of the sports. “In sports and in general. In sports, they kind of like to beat down on someone who struggles. I understand it as well. The bigger the story, the bigger the paycheck. I completely understand where it’s coming from, but I’m not a fan of it. I don’t trust them at all.” Kyrgios added.

Kyrgios dislikes the Australian media and he mentioned that they share false notions about him. “Australian media is by far the worst. By far. It’s by far the worst media in the world. You can just type in my name, and you can get a bunch of stuff from that,” he said.

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Nick Kyrgios further shared the stern side of being a tennis player, while the player is present at post-match press conferences. It is difficult to handle the emotions during that time, especially after the player addresses the reporters when he/she has dealt with a miserable defeat.

“Interviews like this aren’t too bad. I think it’s more the ones where you’ve come off the court and you’re obviously dealing with the emotions of losing and you might’ve had a bad day and you kinda know what kinds of questions are going to come. At that moment you think you’re going to deal with them a lot better than you do. I’ve walked into press conferences knowing what kind of questions are going to come at me,” he said.

When the entertainer of tennis, Kyrgios conceded a second-round defeat to Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon 2019, in that presser, Kyrgios displayed a quicksilver attitude. It involved fun as well as seriousness.

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“When you’re sitting there and you see who’s asking it, and you understand they’re only asking not because they genuinely care but because they kind of want you to bite on it and retaliate on their question, it makes you frustrated. I think the toughest part of it has some discipline and sometimes be the bigger man and not retaliate to their question. It’s not easy. It’s not as easy as it seems just walk in there and be good to answer all the questions,” Nick Kyrgios continued.

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The volatile tennis player on the ATP track, Nick Kyrgios drew attention when he defeated Rafael Nadal in the fourth round of Wimbledon 2014. He spoke about getting adjusted to the spotlight and how the dexterous teenager, Coco Gauff is presently handling the stardom.

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“I don’t think I’m completely used to it at the moment,” Nick Kyrgios said. “It’s something I’m still dealing with and trying to deal with better. But I think Coco has a great team around her. She’s so young and she’s going to do pretty special things in this sport. I think she’s going to win Grand Slams, multiple Grand Slam champion, so she’s going to have a pretty good media team around her and pretty good team around her. I think she’s going to deal with it a little better than I have.”

Kyrgios will next meet, the Japanese, Yoshihito Nishioka in pre-quarterfinals of DC Open in the American capital.

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