Nick Kyrgios, the controversial Australian former player turned Wimbledon commentator, has taken aim at his BBC colleague Andrew Castle’s commentary saying that it showed he had “never played tennis at a high level”.
Kyrgios said that it was “disrespectful” of Castle to criticise the standard of play in Taylor Fritz’s fourth-round victory over Alexander Zverev.
Castle, a former British No 1 who has led the BBC’s Wimbledon commentary team for two decades, said of the match: “You can’t say it’s been the most captivating tennis, to be frank.”
Kyrgios’s appointment to the BBC was already controversial as the so-called “bad boy” of tennis admitted last year that he had assaulted his ex-girlfriend
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Minutes later, Kyrgios, 29, who joined the BBC team this year, wrote on Twitter/X: “‘Not captivating’ — was a comment from a commentator who is doing the Zverev & Fritz match.
“This alone tells me that