ATP Miami: ATP fines Nick Kyrgios $35,000 for his behavior

His nervousness is costing him more and more. Already fined $25,000 in Indian Wells where he notably paid for an uncontrolled racquet throw and his flowery language against Rafael Nadal in the quarter-finals, Nick Kyrgios will have to pay an additional $35,000 (a little more than 31,000 euros) leaving Florida. At least if he does not commit a new odd doubles – he is in the semi-finals with Thanasi Kokkinakis – by then. The ATP thus, among other things, sanctioned the words of the Australian against the referee Carlos Bernardes, during the round of 16 which had opposed him to Jannik Sinner.

In detail, four offenses were thus notified to Kyrgios: two for unsportsmanlike conduct (5,000 dollars fine each), one for audible obscenity (5,000 dollars) and a last, heaviest, for insults (20,000 dollars). At the end of the first set of his round of 16, the Australian had targeted without stopping between the points and during the changes of sides the Brazilian referee, whom he considered not to be up to his task, accusing him in particular of triggering a walkie-talkie in full swing. He ended up paying him a penalty point during the tie-break.

Then after breaking his racquet in rage at the change of sides, Kyrgios also received a penalty game, synonymous with a break at the start of the second set for his opponent Jannik Sinner. After his defeat, the Australian, far from making his mea culpa, gave a layer on social networks, calling for a renewal of the refereeing corps on the ATP circuit.