Nick Kyrgios spots one thing ‘loopy’ about Andy Murray after Wimbledon setback

Nick Kyrgios labelled Andy Murray’s struggles towards bogey opponent Alex de Minaur “crazy” after the Australian ended the Scotsman’s hopes of being seeded for Wimbledon at Queen’s. The 24-year-old swatted apart Murray in straight units in a 6-3 6-1 triumph to additionally shatter the two-time Wimbledon champion’s beautiful 10-match successful streak on British grass courts.

Murray arrived at Queen’s in determined want of success if he was to seal a seeded spot at SW19 however now the 36-year-old has been left to lick his wounds.

De Minaur seems to have his quantity having now received all 4 of his conferences with Murray, one thing that Kyrgios was eager to level out on his Twitter account.

The Aussie wrote: “Muzz doesn’t like playing demon at all, crazy.”

The world No 18 was handed a walkover within the quarter-finals of The Washington Open again in 2018 after Murray was compelled to withdraw from their first ever potential assembly.

Yet even when the pair have collided – there has solely been one end result up to now.

De Minaur has picked up victories at Zhuhai in China, the Laver Cup, Monte Carlo and now Queen’s as he continues to inflict distress on his elder opponent.

He will now sq. off with Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman for a spot within the quarter-finals.

Murray was eager to pay tribute to De Minaur’s high quality and is aware of there is no such thing as a disgrace in shedding to the Aussie.

“I don’t want to overanalyse,” mentioned Murray after successful titles in Surbiton and Nottingham previous to the match.

“It’s easy to overreact. I lost to a good player.”

He later added on his latest type on grass courts: “It’s obviously not the same level of opponents, but I won Nottingham last week without dropping a set. I only lost one set in Surbiton.

“I used to be holding serve very comfortably, transferring nicely, hitting the ball good. There are a whole lot of constructive indicators there.”

Murray realistically wanted to succeed in not less than the quarter-finals at Queen’s to face an opportunity of being seeded for Wimbledon.

The official seeding takes place on July 3 however it is going to now be disappointment for Murray regardless of his latest achievements.

The Scotsman has made no secret of the actual fact he has been strongly focusing on a seeded place for Wimbledon by breaking into the highest 32 gamers on the earth rankings.

Now he shall be confronted with a troublesome draw as he makes an attempt to write down new historical past at SW19.