Tennis Tantrum: Nick Kyrgios sore-loses to a Karen at Djokovicless US Open

Australia's Nick Kyrgios lost a hard-fought tennis match against Karen Khachanov at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens, NY in the U.S. Open.

Kyrgios would hit the ball and Karen would hit it back, and this went on and on until it ended with Karen hitting it back more often than the Aussie.

Kyrgios lost: 5-7, 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (7-3), in a match that lasted 3 hours and 39 long minutes for the number 23 seed. After the match, Kyrgios showed his sportsmanship by slamming his racket onto the court, which broke it, then slammed another racket with the same result before leaving the stadium. It was the third racket he smashed that day as one was smashed during the match.

Khachanov, the 27th seed, now advances to the semifinals for the first time while Kyrgios wins the title of "Role Model of the Year" for the kids who love the game. So Karen will now face the number 5 seed, Casper Ruud on Friday with the winner going on to the championship match while Kyrgios goes on to being an incredibly poor sport.

“I did it,” Karen said during his on-court interview. “I did it guys. It was a crazy match. I was expecting it to be like this. We played almost four hours, that’s the only way to beat Nick, I think.” Beat Nick--has a strange ring to it.

Kyrgios, who stopped ranting long enough to compose himself, reluctantly gave credit to Khachanov for beating his sorry ass.

“I’m obviously devastated,” Kyrgios cried. “But all credit to Karen. He’s a fighter. He’s a warrior. I thought he served really good today. Honestly probably the best server I played this tournament, to be honest, the way he was hitting his spots under pressure.”

Khachanov simply played a tighter, better game, committing just 31 unforced errors in comparison to Kyrgios’ egregious 58. He also converted on four of eight break points, while Kyrgios secured two of nine.

In the fourth set, Kyrgios double-faulted on the last point of the sixth game allowing Karen to tie at 3-3. And so on, and so forth, if you're interested in tennis. Just know that Karen won, Kyrgios lost and all is well in the world of tennis.

Kyrgios once called Karen Khachanov an "absolute pelican" during a social media war, so there was no love lost between them. At the Cincinnati Masters in 2019, Khachanov beat Kyrgios who had fallen apart in three sets and ended the match by spitting in the direction of the chair umpire Fergus Murphy, thus gaining his bonafides as an scumcrumpet sore loser.

In this match Kyrgios got an unsportsmanlike conduct warning after he chucked a water bottle following the third set.

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I don't know about you, but it seems tiring and very annoying to watch the antics of a man-baby acting out. But perhaps that's what a lot of tennis fans want to see. If that's true, then you can have tennis, I'll take football and marathoning any day over this garbage display. 

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