For those who didn't notice: Tsitsipas had thrown a ball into the audience (and luckily didn't hit anyone), he had aimed at Kyrgios several times (also without success), and he then gave himself up at the press conference, as much as he otherwise was with philosophical ones wisdom delighted his Twitter followers, quite at a loss. Kyrgios brings good things to the sport, he is different, and that's not bad, said Tsitsipas. But the constant conversations, the constant complaints, they're just frustrating. "Why would you talk while you're playing?" he asked a perfectly valid question. It doesn't make sense, after all it's about tennis.

Tsitsipas admitted that he let Kyrgios affect him too much. "That was really bad of me, I've never done that before," he apologizes for hitting the audience, "I don't know what went through my head." It probably also had something to do with "the circus" on the other side, "there was something that caused this behavior in me that I don't know about myself."

The attempts to shoot down Kyrgios were also intentional. "So that this stops," Tsitsipas explained further and seemed at a loss about his thoughts himself. If you're just doing your job and there's only noise from the side, it's harassment, he said. "I can't have it when someone puts other people down." Kyrgios has some good qualities, but also a "bad side" that reveals "that he can do some bad things to the people around him".

Kyrgios on Tsitsipas: "Serious problems"

Nick Kyrgios was of course confronted with the harassment accusation (but not with the addition that he also had good sides) and presented himself as the innocent lamb. Tsitsipas finally aimed at him and thundered the ball into the audience. He was probably frustrated because he had lost to him twice in a short period of time, he said. And the circus was Tsitsipas himself this time. "He has serious problems." Tsitsipas will certainly not address him, Kyrgios, personally.

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Rafael Nadal would probably have the necessary solution to the dispute ready, who had just completed his match against Lorenzo Sonego with ease - apart from a small upset at the end, for which he apologized several times ("I was wrong"). When asked about the Kygios-Tsitsipas Zoff, Nadal presented himself as a philosopher this time. "I think everyone should go to bed at night in accordance with the things they've done," he said, in the words of a man ten more years old. "And if you can't sleep peacefully and in harmony with yourself, you may have done things that weren't ethical."

Did Tsitsipas and Kyrgios listen to the great master?

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