Kokkinakis fumes at awkward Kyrgios blunder

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Thanasi Kokkinakis made mince nutrient of his round-one Australian Open hostile who was erstwhile ranked No.9 successful the world.

But it seems he's inactive struggling to get retired of the shadiness of his sometimes doubles partner, Nick Kyrgios, contempt the second not adjacent competing astatine Melbourne Park this tournament.

Kyrgios was forced to retreat from the Open connected the eve of his archetypal match, having sustained a genu wounded successful the lead-up.

Last twelvemonth helium won the Australian Open men's doubles rubric alongside Kokkinakis, arsenic the 2 adjacent mates made a stunning tally to the silverware pursuing Kyrgios being bundled retired of the singles gully by Daniil Medvedev.

But with Kyrgios sidelined, Kokkinakis is 1 of the large section drawcards successful the men's singles gully this year.

He breezed done his first-round clash with Italian challenger Fabio Fognini, with their lucifer divided crossed 2 days owed to bedewed weather.

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But Kokkinakis was deed betwixt the eyes with the archetypal question astatine his post-match property conference, erstwhile a writer mistakenly began with, "hey Nick".

Kokkinakis did his champion to laughter disconnected the awkward blunder, but seemed nary excessively pleased.

"Oh, wow," Kokkinakis said.

"That is (a) firing, that's you done. I'm going to tin that.

"That is shithouse from you."

When the adjacent question began with a antithetic writer addressing him by his existent name, Kokkinakis smiled and joked, "you've already done better".

Kokkinakis volition instrumentality connected Andy Murray - different adjacent person of Kyrgios - successful the 2nd round.

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