Nick Kyrgios and Karen Khachanov’s 2020 Twitter spat ahead of US Open 2022 quarter-final: ‘You absolute pelican’
Nick Kyrgios and Karen Khachanov will meet in the US Open quarter-finals two years after a terse exchange on Twitter which ended with the novel insult “you absolute pelican”. The pair last met at the Australian Open in 2020, with Kyrgios edging the five-set marathon after the final four sets all headed to a tie-break.


