{"id":264787,"date":"2023-01-19T21:59:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T22:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=264787"},"modified":"2023-01-20T22:59:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T22:59:18","slug":"devastated-aussies-four-word-tweet-at-4-28am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=264787","title":{"rendered":"Devastated Aussie's' four-word tweet at 4.28am"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a tweet posted at 4.28am Friday, Thanasi Kokkinakis<\/a> needed just four words to describe his feelings after his five-set epic against Andy Murray<\/a>.<\/p>\n

"This f—ing sport man."<\/p>\n

Simple words that speak volumes. He also posted a selfie to his Instagram, clearly looking drained.<\/p>\n

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On Stan Sport's Grand Slam Daily<\/em>, John Fitzgerald – who also conducted the post match courtside interviews – said it was one of the best matches he had seen the Aussie play.<\/p>\n

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"Kokkinakis really came of age for me. He hasn't had a great run over the last few years with injury, and that's the best tennis by far I've ever seen him play," he said.<\/p>\n

"He played like a mature athlete that can really do some damage over these next couple of years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

"He's going to be shattered after that performance – serving for the match twice, and failing to get over the line – but he lost to one of the great legends of our sport [from] the past 30 to 40 years."<\/p>\n

It was the longest match Murray had ever played in his career by a significant margin.<\/p>\n

"To put it in some sort of perspective, that match was 37 minutes longer than any match Andy Murray has ever played before," Fitzgerald added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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"That shows what sort of intensity it had and for how long – the standard of tennis was\u00a0 incredible."<\/p>\n

Fitzgerald said he believed an argument Kokkinakis had with the umpire early in the third set when up two sets and a break affected his game and potentially led to Murray's fightback.<\/p>\n

Kokkinakis was hit with a serve time violation while waiting for the crowd noise to die down, and lashed out at the umpire.<\/p>\n

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Fitzgerald said Kokkinakis probably took it too far.<\/p>\n

"He got a time violation warning, he disagreed with it, and he really took it over to the umpire and probably extended it a fair bit longer than he needed to," Fitzgerald said.<\/p>\n

"He served for the match twice in that set \u2026 and he went on about this violation when he probably should have focused.<\/p>\n

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"At the end of the day, I wouldn't want to dwell on that too much because [of] the standard of the match – he came straight back into it early in the fourth and went to the same level if not better than he'd been before.\u00a0<\/p>\n

"He got over it – it took him a bit a few games to get over it.<\/p>\n

"It was incredible tennis tonight and one of the best matches I've ever witnessed."<\/p>\n

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