De Minaur's eyebrow-raising Kyrgios response

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Australia's apical 2 men's tennis stars look to not beryllium connected speaking terms, with Alex de Minaur revealing he's had small interaction with Nick Kyrgios this summer.

Kyrgios (No.19) and de Minaur (No.22) are the lone 2 seeded Aussies successful the men's gully astatine Melbourne Park, but are joined by 9 different compatriots.

De Minaur fronted the media for questions astir his lead-up connected Friday morning, but reporters were curiously barred from asking immoderate questions regarding Kyrgios, with small mentation offered arsenic to why.

The 23-year-old was asked whether he'd spoken to his Aussie teammate successful the lead-up to the tourney and simply responded with: "No, we haven't spoken".

While de Minaur hadn't spoken to Kyrgios, it is worthy noting that Kyrgios did connection his congratulations to his teammate erstwhile helium bushed Rafael Nadal portion representing Australia astatine the United Cup earlier successful January.

De Minaur has been outspoken astir his pridefulness representing the greenish and golden passim the summer, portion Kyrgios has sat retired of some the Davis Cup and the United Cup, citing an wounded arsenic the crushed for snubbing the latter.

Kyrgios has besides publically jousted with Australia's Davis Cup and United Cup skipper Lleyton Hewitt, who shares a beardown narration with De Minaur.

De Minaur expressed his vexation successful November erstwhile Kyrgios sat retired of the Davis Cup, saying helium had tried to speech Kyrgios into representing his country.

While helium was not prepared to speech astir Kyrgios, de Minaur did explicit his pridefulness astatine 10 different compatriots joining him successful the main gully astatine Melbourne Park.

"It's astonishing to see. That's yet the extremity arsenic a nation, to amusement however beardown we tin truly be," helium said.

"There's a batch of past and civilization successful our federation successful tennis and conscionable to beryllium capable to beryllium a tiny portion of it (is a pleasure).

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"We're evidently precise adjacent successful the Davis Cup and successful the Billie Jean King Cup we were precise adjacent arsenic good and I deliberation it conscionable shows what we're capable to bash erstwhile we correspond our state and the passionateness that we person representing the greenish and gold.

"Hopefully it's conscionable the commencement and we tin get much and much players successful the main draws and successful the apical 100 and conscionable beryllium competitory each implicit the satellite and conscionable amusement however large Aussies are."

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