chair umpire Carlos Bernardes, Kyrgios walked a fine line as he was just one code violation away from being defaulted.
In an interview with Tennis Channel, 2003 US Open winner Andy Roddick said “it’s pretty easy, once you have a warning, don’t do anything else that would warrant another warning!
“I actually didn’t disagree with Nick why he got the point penalty in the tiebreaker.
“Him saying, ‘this referee is bad and someone else could do better’, I feel like he has a valid point there. Carlos [Bernardes], who I like, might have gotten his feelings hurt. That doesn’t seem like it’s unsportsmanlike conduct.
“It feels like ego was maybe in play there. But then, it’s not the reason [why] you’re upset, it’s how you react to it. Breaking your racket right in his face when you know the umpire is already ticking quickly, he already wants to give you a warning, he’s motivated, he’s offended.
“Your problem solving is to smash a racket to give him a break, to get down a set and a break. That’s the part where you lose me a little bit.“You don’t want to hear the opinions but then you do something like that where it’s kind of impossible to lay off and say ‘you know what, that was absolutely not the right thing to do if you wanted to win this tennis match’.”
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