KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — Nick Kyrgios scored a 7-6 (3), 6-3 win over Andrey Kuznetsov to reach his first-everMasters 1000 quarterfinal at the Miami Open. But as is his usual style, he couldn’t doit without incident.
Down 0-3 and on serve, Kyrgios slapped at a ball tossed to him by a,causing the ball to land in the stands to the side of the court. Umpire Cedric Mourier immediately issued a warning for ball abuse.
Kyrgios won that game, and broke to win the next game, before getting into an argument with Mourier during the changeover.
“She threw a ball at me, how is that a code?” he said first.