{"id":300498,"date":"2023-12-19T15:24:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T15:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=300498"},"modified":"2023-12-19T15:24:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T15:24:47","slug":"nick-kyrgios-makes-boris-becker-clarification-amid-bitter-feud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/tennis\/nick-kyrgios-makes-boris-becker-clarification-amid-bitter-feud\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios makes Boris Becker clarification amid bitter feud"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Nick Kyrgios makes Boris Becker clarification as Australian star insists he is &#8216;done&#8217; with bitter feud with tennis legend<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nick Kyrgios says his bitter row with Boris Becker is &#8216;done&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Kyrgios has been engaged in a war of words with the German\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He insists he was not dismissing Becker&#8217;s achievements\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nick Kyrgios says he is &#8216;done&#8217; with his bitter feud with Boris Becker as the Australian made a clarification on his stance amid tennis&#8217; hottest debate.<\/p>\n<p>The pair have been firing shots at each other since 2020 but their row went nuclear on Tuesday with the Wimbledon finalist bringing up the German champion&#8217;s jail sentence in their online war of words.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest twist, Kyrgios said\u00a0that Becker and other greats of his era could not cut it in the modern game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The game was so slow back then,&#8217; the 28-year-old said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve watched Boris Becker and I&#8217;m not saying they weren&#8217;t good in their time, but to say that they would be just as good now, it&#8217;s absurd.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/19\/14\/79113859-12881353-Kyrgios_and_Becker_have_been_embroiled_in_a_running_feud_for_yea-a-34_1702995780489.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Nick Kyrgios has clarified his stance amid his bitter feud with Boris Becker\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/19\/14\/79113853-12881353-Becker_claims_players_from_his_decade_established_a_tennis_world-a-35_1702995783260.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Becker claims players from his decade established a tennis world where players like Kyrgios could enjoy fame and money even when they weren&#8217;t playing<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A big serve back then was like 197 to 200[kmh]. People like me, we serve 220 consistently, to corners. It&#8217;s a whole different ball game.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>That clearly rattled the former world No.1, with the 56-year-old German launching a series of fresh attacks on Kyrgios.<\/p>\n<p>Becker says the past legends of the sport made it possible for the injured Aussie to make a living from tennis without playing all year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You have to have respect for the past &amp; simply say &#8216;thank you&#8217; out loud that these old pros existed, because without them the tennis circus would no longer exist,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kyrgios was having none of that, though, saying he earned his own fame while taking a pot shot at Becker&#8217;s criminal past.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Uhhh what? I\u2019ve been arguably one of the most watched players outside the big three the last decade?&#8217; Kyrgios posted on X.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/19\/14\/79128831-12881353-image-a-33_1702995755710.jpg\" height=\"182\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Kyrgios insisted that he was not taking anything away from Becker&#8217;s achievements<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/19\/14\/79113851-12881353-Kyrgios_got_personal_bringing_up_Beckers_bankruptcy_and_conseque-a-36_1702995789641.jpg\" height=\"418\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Kyrgios got personal, bringing up Beckers bankruptcy and consequent jail term as insults<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Fans around the world and have brought so many more people to the sport. I\u2019ve created my own stuff off the court. Try to not hide any more assets x.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>That final line was a dig at Becker&#8217;s recent financial turmoil that led to his imprisonment in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>But Kyrgios&#8217;s line of argument has drawn criticism, with some claiming that the Aussie was diminishing Becker&#8217;s achievements on the tennis court.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the 28-year-old has insisted that he was in no way dismissing the German.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Not once have I taken \u2018slams\u2019 away from Becker, or any of these legends,&#8217; he posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Not once have I said I\u2019ve impacted the game MORE. I\u2019ve simply said that I\u2019ve built my own brand and done it my way &amp; brought fans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Apparently a slam finalist has no credibility. Night, done with this convo.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/article-12881353\/Nick-Kyrgios-makes-Boris-Becker-clarification-amid-bitter-feud.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Kyrgios makes Boris Becker clarification as Australian star insists he is &#8216;done&#8217; with bitter feud with tennis legend Nick Kyrgios says his bitter row with Boris Becker is &#8216;done&#8217;\u00a0 Kyrgios has been engaged in a war of words with the German\u00a0 He insists he was not dismissing Becker&#8217;s achievements\u00a0 Nick Kyrgios says he is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nick Kyrgios makes Boris Becker clarification amid bitter feud - Tell My Sport<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/tennis\/nick-kyrgios-makes-boris-becker-clarification-amid-bitter-feud\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nick Kyrgios makes Boris Becker clarification amid bitter feud - Tell My Sport\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nick Kyrgios makes Boris Becker clarification as Australian star insists he is &#8216;done&#8217; 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