With an even set, tied at four games in the third, Australian Nick Kyrgios leads 40-0 with his serve. Up to that point, it has been a relatively calm and fast match. It's been less than two hours, and the Australian has already received a warning; he has served between his legs, fought with his box, and drunkenly called a spectator. Everything was as expected on his part.
Novak Djokovic tries to be calm because he knows what he has to do, but sometimes it works out and other times, not so much. A robot without emotions to not fall on the Kyrgios roller coaster, a la Stefanos Tsitsipas in the third round.
There, the members of Kyrgios' entourage make a fatal mistake: they stop supporting him enough. They stop getting up, cheering, and clapping like every point is a match. Kyrgios loses the game and is one step away from losing the set. In the exchange, he begins to yell at them like a man possessed while gesturing with his whole body.
He's entirely out of his mind: "Whenever I go 40-0 or 40-15, you stop cheering me on," as if that, and not the fact that I'm playing against a guy who has won that tournament seven times and spent three hundred and seventy-seven weeks as number one in the world, was the reason for the defeat.
It is a difficult moment to see. It's sad. Apparently, for those accused (his family, his friends...), but in reality for the one who criticizes. Kyrgios wants to be cheered on all the time.
Kyrgios wants to be loved. Kyrgios wants a huge birthday party that lasts forever, with him as a continuous entertainer. Kyrgios has an ego that is above his talent, so even on an unremarkable day for his rival, Kyrgios loses in four sets with a painful final tie-break.
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