READ MORE:<\/strong> Tiley declares AO 'best sporting event' in tennis history<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n AS IT HAPPENED:<\/strong> Nadal trumps Medvedev in epic AO final<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The comments drew a few raised eyebrows from fans and experts alike – while one of Kyrgios' opponents in that final, Max Purcell, also made his feelings on the crowd known.<\/p>\n Kyrgios fired back on social media<\/a>, while Rafter scoffed at the claims when appearing on television on Sunday night.<\/p>\n "Well, it's a different type of atmosphere. They certainly create a lot of chaos out there in the crowd," Rafter told The Project about Kyrgios and Kokkinakis.<\/p>\n "I wouldn't call it a traditional tennis crowd that they get – but it's like a soccer crowd.<\/p>\n "But in terms of the best ever atmosphere… I don't know. I was on the court when Ash walked out and the scream that they got, you're not going to get any better than that.<\/p>\n "The scream that she got from the crowd there was something you'll never be able to replicate unless you're in that situation."<\/p>\n Rafter went on to say that women's tennis in Australia is as strong as it has ever been, and that the men could get there too.<\/p>\n "We've got one of the greatest, I think, in Australian women's tennis that we've ever seen," he said, referring to Barty.<\/p>\n "In the men's, it could be better. I mean, we were definitely strong in the 1960s and 1970s.<\/p>\n "We had a great moment in the 1990s as well and the boys can certainly lift that, they have the talent.<\/p>\n "If you get the depth there with Alex De Minaur and the Ks and [John] Millman and Jordan [Thompson] and all of the guys pushing through, you can all help each other to achieve a lot of greatness."<\/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":" Australian tennis legend Pat Rafter rejected claims made by Nick Kyrgios regarding the atmosphere at Melbourne Park, saying nothing could top the energy that came […]<\/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\/192836"}],"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=192836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192838,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192836\/revisions\/192838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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