Kyrgios' unlikely doubles date with feuding rival

Nick Kyrgios and Stefanos Tsitsipas buried the hatchet to signifier an improbable doubles pairing astatine the Diriyah Tennis Cup successful Saudi Arabia.

The tennis superstars were astatine loggerheads during an explosive Wimbledon clash successful July.

Kyrgios won the 3rd circular lucifer connected his mode to the last arsenic Tsitsipas accused the Australian of "bullying" opponents and having a "very evil side".

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Nick Kyrgios of Australia and Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece. (Getty)

Kyrgios deed backmost by calling the Greek "soft" among different things.

But the duo were forced to enactment unneurotic successful Riyadh aft some were knocked retired of the singles gully and placed unneurotic successful the doubles.

"Who would person thought," Tsitsipas wrote connected Twitter aft Kyrgios advertised the lucifer against Hubert Hurkacz and Dominic Stricker.

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Hurkacz and Stricker won the necktie 7-6(3), 7-6(3) but each eyes were connected however Kyrgios and Tsitsipas were getting on.

It was just to accidental the assemblage connection was mixed - not saying a batch unneurotic successful betwixt games but playing unneurotic amicably.

Kyrgios aboriginal shared a photograph of helium and Tsitsipas connected Instagram with the caption: "how it's going vs however it started".

Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece and Nick Kyrgios of Australia. (Getty)

American Taylor Fritz claimed the $1.5m singles purse by beating defending champion Daniil Medvedev 7-6(5), 7-6(3) successful the final.

"Last clip we played, helium won, helium told maine that I was the amended subordinate successful the archetypal set, and it's benignant of reverse this clip around," Fritz said.

"He was the amended subordinate for the match, and I was precise fortunate to benignant of conscionable scrape retired immoderate of these large points and get done it."

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