Nick Kyrgios claims he has been thrown “underneath the bus” by Lleyton Hewitt following his choice to withdraw from Australia’s staff on the United Cup.
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Kyrgios took a swipe at Hewitt on Twitter within the wake of his United Cup withdrawalHe pulled out of the staff occasion due to an ankle damageHewitt stated he had been unaware of Kyrgios’s withdrawal till it was introduced
Kyrgios pulled out of the joint ATP and WTA occasion on Wednesday — lower than 24 hours earlier than it started — on account of an ankle damage.
Hewitt, who’s Australia’s co-captain at the United Cup, stated on Thursday he had been unaware of Kyrgios’s withdrawal till the 27-year-old’s announcement.
He was unimpressed by what he described as a “lack of communication” from Kyrgios.
On Friday, Kyrgios took a swipe at Hewitt on Twitter when he replied to a tweet highlighting Australian Ajla Tomljanović’s withdrawal from her United Cup match in opposition to Nice Britain’s Harriet Dart due to a left knee damage.
Kyrgios queried if Tomljanović would have been handled equally by Hewitt’s co-captain Sam Stosur.
“Mmm I’m wondering if Stosur will throw her (Tomljanović) underneath the bus like our captain did for me … ‘onerous to organize when you do not know what is going on on’,” Kyrgios wrote.
Kyrgios was set to symbolize Australia for the primary time in a staff competitors in virtually three years.
The boys’s world quantity 22 educated on the follow courts at Sydney Olympic Park on Friday.
In Kyrgios’s absence on the United Cup, Nice Britain constructed an unassailable result in win the tie in opposition to the understrength Australians on Ken Rosewall Area at Sydney Olympic Park.
Maddison Inglis, who took Tomljanović’s spot, misplaced her ladies’s singles rubber to Dart, 6-4, 6-4.
Alex de Minaur, who changed Nick Kyrgios as Australia’s prime males’s seed, was defeated by Cameron Norrie in Thursday’s opening males’s singles rubber, 6-3, 6-3.
Norrie’s countrywoman Katie Swan backed up his win when she downed Zoe Hives, 6-4, 6-3.
Within the males’s singles rubber on Friday night time, Australia’s world quantity 107 Jason Kubler scored an upset win over Twenty seventh-ranked Dan Evans, 6-3, 7-6 (7/3).
Amongst different ends in the opening round-robin ties, the USA beat Czech Republic, Switzerland defeated Kazakhstan, whereas Italy bought previous Brazil.
Greece additionally triumphed over Bulgaria.
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