"We're really bad role models, no one watches us" - Kyrgios hits back at critics

Tuesday, 15 November 2022 at 08:00

Updated at Tuesday, 15 November 2022 at 02:54

byZlatko Vodenicharov

After opening loss at the final event of the year, Nick Kyrgios took a moment to hit back at some of his critics.

Teaming up with Thanasi Kokkinakis, the 27-years-old Australian hopes for a strong finish of the season at the year-end ATP competition. The Australians lost in their first match but they are still the wild horses of the event and a duo that is the most interesting for many fans.

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One of the journalists also sees their influence and therefore, at the post-match press conference, he asked: “This morning there were a lot of younger people, children. You are kind of an idol for them. How do you feel?”

Since the Australian often feels like his qualities are not appreciated, despite a great interest in his matches, he sarcastically replied:

“We're really bad role models. We're bad for the sport. No one loves watching us play. We're not crowd favourites. We're just negative people.”

“Yeah, so, I don't know. I don't think that statement was correct by you. No one was there to watch us play today," he said.

"Look, me and Thanasi never thought we were going to be here at the end-of-the-year finals. We always thought we could do some good things together, but to put a year consistently like this, and we didn't even play, we played maybe six or seven events or something, so…”