John McEnroe says Nick Kyrgios went “too far” by smashing his racquets on court while Karen Khachanov celebrated his US Open quarter-final win against the Australian.
An epic encounter saw the Russian progress to the last-four in five sets at Arthur Ashe Stadium. Ad After shaking hands with the umpire, Kyrgios proceeded to hammer his racquet against the playing surface, before grabbing a spare and destroying that one too.
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So that was going too far — I know something about that.” “Nick obviously does that almost every match. We saw the full Nick there.