Devastated Aussie's' four-word tweet at 4.28am

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In a tweet posted astatine 4.28am Friday, Thanasi Kokkinakis needed conscionable 4 words to picture his feelings aft his five-set epic against Andy Murray.

"This f---ing athletics man."

Simple words that talk volumes. He besides posted a selfie to his Instagram, intelligibly looking drained.

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On Stan Sport's Grand Slam Daily, John Fitzgerald - who besides conducted the station lucifer courtside interviews - said it was 1 of the champion matches helium had seen the Aussie play.

"Kokkinakis truly came of property for me. He hasn't had a large tally implicit the past fewer years with injury, and that's the champion tennis by acold I've ever seen him play," helium said.

"He played similar a mature jock that tin truly bash immoderate harm implicit these adjacent mates of years.

"He's going to beryllium shattered aft that show - serving for the lucifer twice, and failing to get implicit the enactment - but helium mislaid to 1 of the large legends of our athletics [from] the past 30 to 40 years."

It was the longest lucifer Murray had ever played successful his vocation by a important margin.

"To enactment it successful immoderate benignant of perspective, that lucifer was 37 minutes longer than immoderate lucifer Andy Murray has ever played before," Fitzgerald added.

"That shows what benignant of strength it had and for however agelong - the modular of tennis was incredible."

Fitzgerald said helium believed an statement Kokkinakis had with the umpire aboriginal successful the 3rd acceptable erstwhile up 2 sets and a interruption affected his crippled and perchance led to Murray's fightback.

Kokkinakis was deed with a service clip usurpation portion waiting for the assemblage sound to dice down, and lashed retired astatine the umpire.

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Fitzgerald said Kokkinakis astir apt took it excessively far.

"He got a clip usurpation warning, helium disagreed with it, and helium truly took it implicit to the umpire and astir apt extended it a just spot longer than helium needed to," Fitzgerald said.

"He served for the lucifer doubly successful that acceptable … and helium went connected astir this usurpation erstwhile helium astir apt should person focused.

"At the extremity of the day, I wouldn't privation to dwell connected that excessively overmuch due to the fact that [of] the modular of the lucifer - helium came consecutive backmost into it aboriginal successful the 4th and went to the aforesaid level if not amended than he'd been before.

"He got implicit it - it took him a spot a fewer games to get implicit it.

"It was unthinkable tennis contiguous and 1 of the champion matches I've ever witnessed."

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