Nick Kyrgios has been hit with more than $46,000 in fines following his fourth round loss to Jannik Sinner at the Miami Open earlier this week.
Kyrgios went down 7-6, 6-3 to the ninth seed, being docked a game at the start of the second set by umpire Carlos Bernardes for a code violation.
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The ATP has announced four separate fines for the Australian:
– $6671 for Audible Obscenity
– $13342 for two instances of Unsportsmanlike Conduct
– $26684 for Verbal Abuse
“You have no idea. You have absolutely no idea,” Kyrgios told Bernardes during the first set tie-breaker.
Speaking after the match, Kyrgios said he wasn’t expecting a fine for his on-court behaviour, labelling the performance of Bernardes “dreadful.”
“I don’t personally care, because I know I’m a good person … but I don’t understand what could you possibly fine me for today,” he said.
“That’s the thing. He’s going to get nothing. He’s not even going to get a slap on the wrist for his dreadful umpiring performance today. Like he was horrendous.
“But the ATP won’t do anything about him. There will be no bad articles on him. He will just show up in the next event, and everyone just forgets how bad that was today from him.
“But again, I will have to deal with the negativity, I will have to deal with the bad comments, my girlfriend has to deal with the bad comments, my team has to deal with the bad comments.
Kyrgios was penalised during the first set tie-breaker when Bernardes thought a Kyrgios spray was directed at him. Kyrgios, however, maintained he was speaking to his team.
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“I just don’t think he controls the crowd well at all, in my personal opinion, I just don’t think my point penalty was worth a point penalty,”’ Kyrgios added.
“Literally, all I said to my team was I thought Matthew Reid, an ex-tennis player, could do just as good a job in the umpire’s chair.
“And if that’s worth a point penalty at 5-3 in the first-set tiebreak in the fourth round of Miami, a Masters event for hundreds of thousands of dollars, then you decide. But I think it’s ridiculous.”
The $46,000 in fines is unlikely to put too much of a dent in Kyrgios’ pocket, given he earned $125,000 in prizemoney from the event from the singles tournament alone.
He was also fined $33,000 at the recent Indian Wells tournament.
He will be in action on Friday in the semi-finals of the doubles, where he’s partnering Thanasi Kokkinakis.
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