Published: 10:47, March 30, 2022 | Updated: 10:46, March 30, 2022
Kyrgios rails against chair umpire, ATP after Miami Open loss
By Reuters

Nick Kyrgios of Australia reacts after losing a point to Jannik Sinner of Italy, during the Miami Open tennis tournament, March 29, 2022, in Miami Gardens, Florida. (WILFREDO LEE / AP)

Nick Kyrgios continued to blast the chair umpire overseeing his 7-6(3) 6-3 loss to Jannik Sinner at the Miami Open after the match on Tuesday, where the fiery Australian was given a point and then a game penalty as he again unraveled.

After repeatedly berating umpire Carlos Bernardes for what he saw as Bernardes' inability to control the crowd, Nick Kyrgios received a point penalty in the first-set tiebreaker after telling a friend in the stands that he could do a better job of officiating

After repeatedly berating umpire Carlos Bernardes for what he saw as Bernardes' inability to control the crowd, Kyrgios received a point penalty in the first-set tiebreaker after telling a friend in the stands that he could do a better job of officiating.

The tournament wild card was then given a game penalty after he repeatedly yelled, "What is unsportsmanlike?" at Bernardes and whacking his racket against his bag and the court ahead of the second set.

The game penalty put Sinner up a break to begin the second, and the young Italian rolled from there into the quarter-finals.

"I just don't think he controls the crowd well at all, in my personal opinion. People can have their opinions on it," Kyrgios said in a news conference after the match. "I just don't think my point penalty was worth a point penalty."

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Jannik Sinner of Italy returns a shot from Nick Kyrgios of Australia, during the Miami Open tennis tournament, March 29, 2022, in Miami Gardens, Florida. (WILFREDO LEE / AP)

Kyrgios nearly hit a ball boy with his racket after throwing it following his quarter-final loss to Rafa Nadal in Indian Wells earlier this month, which earned him a $25,000 fine. 

He said he did not feel that fine was warranted, noting that he apologized to the ball boy and gave him a racket the day after the incident, and added that he did not think he had done anything worthy of a fine on Tuesday.

"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.

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