The No.6 seeds were clearly disappointed with the result, but it was the manner of the Aussies' conduct during the match that riled Venus more.<\/p>\n
AS IT HAPPENED:<\/strong> Medvedev trumps Canadian in five-set thriller<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Ash Barty deflects Roger Federer comparisons<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Rafael Nadal denies special treatment from officials<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n "It felt like a circus out there, and not really a tennis match," Venus told New Zealand publication 1News.<\/p>\n "Between serves, [they were] geeing the crowd up and getting them to cheer at times like that. I don't think that's really on.<\/p>\n "You know if it's on the other foot, old mate [Kyrgios] would have flipped his lid."<\/p>\n "He already did get mad there by himself. It's amazing, he can smash a ball out that hits a kid and just 'cause he gives them a racquet afterwards people can say he's such a good guy."<\/p>\n Venus added that he'd found it tough to remain composed on the court and that it had affected his performance.<\/p>\n He then blasted Kyrgios for his lack of maturity and said the former world No.13 would never fulfil his potential.<\/p>\n "On the maturity side, you see why he's never fulfilled his potential and probably never will," he said.<\/p>\n "His maturity level, it's probably being generous to about a 10-year-old, it's at about that level.<\/p>\n Stream every match, every court of the Australian Open live and free on<\/em><\/strong> 9Now<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n "The amount of messages I got from people, an extreme amount, way, way more than I've ever had but then a lot of messages from people saying how embarrassed they were with the crowd's behaviour and they're sorry, it shouldn't have been like that.<\/p>\n "They'll always be his supporters and he'll spin it in a way that helps him but at the end of the day he's an absolute knob."<\/p>\n For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kiwi doubles player Michael Venus has teed off on Nick Kyrgios in an extraordinary spray following their heated quarter-final clash yesterday. Kyrgios and Kokkinakis progressed […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191094,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191092\/revisions\/191094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Special](\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/01\/407310\/pickerimage.jpg\")
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