Sunday Territorian

Kyrgios tweet sparks new firestorm

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NICK Kyrgios has sparked another social media firestorm, replying to a question as to why Australian Davis Cup captain Lleyton Hewitt allegedly didn’t watch his Brisbane Internatio­nal matches.

Kyrgios responded – and later deleted – his tweet on Friday night late in Alex de Min- aur’s quarter-final replying to a Twitter post tagging in Kyrgios, Hewitt, de Minaur and Thanasi Kokkinakis.

It asked why Hewitt was not watching the matches of Kyrgios and Kokkinakis in Brisbane as Davis Cup captain and whether he was just “coaching and managing’’ de Minaur. “He is indeed, but he has what some call abandon us (sic),’’ responded Kyrgios, who fell out of the world top 50 for the first time in four years with a second-round Brisbane exit.

He accompanie­d the post with emojis including a man shrugging and a face with tears of joy.

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