Nick Kyrgios shines his ‘bad boy’ fame and spits on Wimbledon fan: ‘Luckily there’s a fence that stops me from doing anything to them’

Nick Kyrgios is probably the last of the controversial personality tennis players. The last bad boy. The latest “bad boy” in white sports. The Australian advances to Wimbledon, the most phlegmatic tournament of the ATP circuit after a long five-set duel, in which he beat the British Paul Jubbs but the notoriety of his victory does not come from the side of the bulletin board, but from a new departure from those who have characterized his career: here he spat on a fan and recognized the aggressiveness, to which he attributed a powerful justification.

“It was disrespectful. Someone insulted me, told me I was shit, from the public. Is this normal? Nope . I don’t understand why it happens all the time,” he later explained at the press conference following a meeting that showed him facing the chair umpire and those guarding the lines.

Later, he tried to analyze his behavior in the London competition from the epithets to which he was subjected. “I love Wimbledon. It has nothing to do with the tournament. It’s just a generation of people who believe that because they’re on social media they have the right to say whatever they want and they continue to do so in real life. Fortunately, there is a fence that prevents me from doing something to them, ”he let off steam.

“I don’t know why it’s something people only do with athletes. I mean, no one goes into a supermarket and approaches someone who is doing their job and start disrespecting them. This is something that happens more and more in sport. I don’t think that’s right.”

Later, he was more specific about spitting. “To one of the people who disrespected me. Yes yes. I wouldn’t have done that to someone who supported me. “, he admitted.