Nick Kyrgios accused the crowd of “disrespect” after bowing out of his Mexican Open opening match injured.
The Australian was booed and jeered in Acapulco – where he is the defending champion – as he fell to a 6-3 first-set loss against Frenchman Ugo Humbert.
The 24-year-old retired at the end of the set after just 32 minutes.
And in a post-match press conference littered with expletives, he said: “I’m not healthy, I tried to come here. I tried to play. I’ve been doing media for the tournament, been helping out. I tried to give the fans a little bit of tennis. And their disrespect?”
Kyrgios said he was nursing a left wrist injury at a tournament where Kyle Edmund takes on Canada’s Felix Auger Aliassime later today in the last 16.
