{"id":34488,"date":"2021-02-13T09:27:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T10:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=34488"},"modified":"2021-02-13T12:11:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T12:11:23","slug":"kyrgios-girls-comment-stitches-up-kokkinakis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=34488","title":{"rendered":"Kyrgios&#039; &#039;girls&#039; comment stitches up Kokkinakis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Kyrgios left Thanasi Kokkinakis feeling rather embarrassed when he said his doubles partner was more worried about talking about girls than the tactical side of their match today.<\/p>\n<p>The two Aussies, Kyrgios and Kokkinakis, advanced to the second round of the Australian Open doubles with a <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/live-scores\/australian-open-2021\/11622\/438810\" target=\"\" title=\"straight-sets win over Lloyd Harris and Julian Knowle, 6-2 6-4\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">straight-sets win over Lloyd Harris and Julian Knowle, 6-2 6-4<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9now.app.link\/fPnKQ6gxndb\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Watch the Australian Open with live streams of every court at 9Now. 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Click here to start watching!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But it was the pair&#x27;s press conference and their ever-growing bromance, which may have stolen the show today after Kyrgios, who&#x27;s currently in a relationship, revealed Kokkinakis was busy all match talking about girls.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly caught off guard by the comments, Kokkinakis was forced to deny the claims as Kyrgios continued to poke fun at his teammate.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"a259100c-a531-4969-91aa-0b6da0f18674\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/a259100c-a531-4969-91aa-0b6da0f18674\" alt=\"Thanasi Kokkinakis, Nick Kyrgios \" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The hilarious interchange started when the pair was asked if their conversation between points was about match tactics or just general banter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kokkinakis<\/strong>: Tactical, maybe one per cent?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyrgios<\/strong>: I don&#x27;t know, there was actually a bit of talk out there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kokkinakis:<\/strong> Maybe a little bit, but it was definitely more rubbish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyrgios:<\/strong> Well I&#x27;m a taken man, so he&#x27;s talking to me about girls most of the time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kokkinakis:<\/strong> He&#x27;s just thrown me under the bus right here. But that&#x27;s not true, we were just having fun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reporter asks:<\/strong> Has anything changed since the Tsitsipas match? Any developments for you [Kokkinakis]?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyrgios:<\/strong> His direct messages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kokkinakis:<\/strong> This guy [Kyrgios], every time!<\/p>\n<p>Kyrgios and Kokkinakis will face fourth-seeded Wesley Koolhof and Lukasz Kubot in the second round.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Nick Kyrgios left Thanasi Kokkinakis feeling rather embarrassed when he said his doubles partner was more worried about talking about girls than the tactical side <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=34488\" title=\"Kyrgios&#039; &#039;girls&#039; comment stitches up Kokkinakis\">[&#8230;]<\/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\/34488"}],"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=34488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34490,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34488\/revisions\/34490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}