The Australian claimed that there were mitigating circumstances for his behavior, accusing the referee of ignoring his calls to expel an abusive spectator and also blamed social media for creating a new breed of supporters who enjoy videotaping themselves abusing sports. Speaking after his 3-6, 6-1, 7-5, 6-7, 7-5 victory over Job, Kyrgios said that he had spat at the spectator because he was constantly “respected”. “It happens more and more in sports,” said Kyrgios. “I do not enter Argos and I just start breaking someone on the bench when he does his job. I have never done it in my life. I just think viewers think there is no line there anymore. They can just say something and film it and then laugh at it. “Someone just shouted that I was shit in the crowd today. Is this normal? No. But it happens again and again. I think it is a level of respect. Why do they think this is acceptable? “ The Lord faced accusations of hypocrisy after he appeared to be abusing several officials during his three-hour fight. They included loudly calling a referee a “lever” when he went to the referee at 3-2 in the first set, and repeatedly telling another to leave the field when he made a mistake. He got angry again when two line judges with silver hair cheated. “These people are in their 90s, they can’t see the ball,” he said angrily after a successful challenge. Wimbledon confirmed that she would speak to the referee and examine the copy of Kyrgios’ press conference before deciding what punishment would be imposed. According to the rules of the Grand Slam tournament, players are warned that they will not “at any time, directly or indirectly, verbally abuse any official, opponent, sponsor, spectator or other person within the tournament area”. In 2010, Romanian Victor Hanescu was fined $ 15,000 after spitting on spectators. Under the Grand Slam rules, players can now be fined up to $ 20,000 (£ 16,400) for each offense. Kyrgios, however, insisted that he had done nothing wrong. “All these spectators came to see a full stadium with Nick Kyrgios and my opponent,” he said when asked about the “clamp” comment. “He found it important to go to the referee at 30-love and succeed. “No one was there to see her today, in fact.” Britain’s Paul Jubb scared Nick Kyrgio before finally losing in five sets. Photo: Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP During the match, Kygrios also urged the referee, Marija Cicak, to expel two spectators who abused him, although he did not specify the nature of the abuse. “They have no right to do that,” he told her. “It simply came to our notice then. I do not raise their faces at 9-5 and I start clapping them when they scan shit in a supermarket. “They have no right to do that, so why is it still happening?” Kygrios later also made a bizarre claim that he was justified in attacking officials because he was more abused on social media than they were. “I just really know, like if we go through my Instagram compared to that of a referee, it ‘s disgusting some of the things I’re dealing with. Like my brother has alopecia and they joke that he has cancer. I doubt the referees are dealing with this. “It goes deeper than that because if I miss a tennis match and it ends up in a call, there is no social media abuse. I have to face it. My girlfriend is dealing with hate messages. My family deals with hate messages. “I have messages of hatred.” Almost lost in the weeds of an extraordinary press conference was that Jubb, the No. 219 in the world who has not yet won a race on the main tour, startled Kygrios. “It was incredibly hard,” Kygrios said. “He was a local wild card, he had nothing to lose and he played great tennis. I thought I would go down there. “Level by level, this is probably one of the worst games I’ve ever played at Wimbledon. I did not feel good about the ball, I did not hit the ball well, I did not serve well, I could not go back for centuries. I played awful for an hour and a half. Then, somehow, I just scammed it. I consider it just positive “. Jubb promised to rise in the standings, but insisted that what had happened on the pitch had not affected him. “I did not pay attention to any of them,” he said. “So I can not really remember what he was shouting about.”
