Nick Kyrgios has reacted to his snubbing for the Newcombe Medal for Australia’s best tennis player with his trademark indifference.
The world No.13 made his feelings known in a Twitter exchange with fellow Australian rising star Thanasi Kokkinakis.
“Surely I’m nominated at the Newcombe Medal this year?!?” Kokkinakis tweeted, tongue planted in cheek.
Kyrgios replied with equal sarcasm: “Kokky this applies to us both.”
The 21-year-old’s failure to be nominated for the Tennis Australia award comes as little surprise after his season ended in an three-week suspension following a meltdown in Shanghai.
Kyrgios, who has long-held anti-authoritarian attitudes, left little doubt of his disdain for the national tennis body when he re-tweeted a follower who described the Newcombe Medal as “slowly morphing into the teacher’s pet award”.