Commentary
This year’s Wimbledon tennis extravaganza finished with a highly anticipated clash between the Serbian champion, Novak Djokovic, and the “bad boy” of tennis, Australia’s Nick Kyrgios. It was Kyrgios’s first Grand Slam final.
During the fortnight of the competition, Kyrgios constantly made the headlines, but mainly for the wrong reasons. He spat in the direction of one of the spectators, who allegedly heckled him during his first-round match, copping a fine of $14,400. In his third-round match, he unsuccessfully demanded that the umpire disqualify his opponent, Stefanos Tsitsipas, for hitting a tennis ball into the crowd. As an example, he even invoked the disqualification in 2020 of Djokovic, who was guilty of hitting a linesperson with a tennis ball at the U.S. Open, which Dominic Thiem eventually won….