Nick Kyrgios blames a family tragedy for losing French Open

Nick Kyrgios blames the grief of losing his grandfather for his loss on the French Open.

He crashed out of the Paris grand slam, losing to South African Kevin Anderson, and smashing not one but two tennis racquets in the process.

In what has been described as a meltdown he even asked spectators to get him a beer, after losing serve in the fourth set.

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The Australian talent had a few fitness issues to deal with too; complaining of hip and shoulder niggles.

“After my grandpa passing, I just lost a lot of motivation to do anything, really,” Kyrgios said, reports The Australian.

“When I was back home, it was tough. I mean, I can’t talk about it. I can’t. But I haven’t really put together any good training in the last couple weeks. Obviously, just trying to manage some niggles. And, obviously, I haven’t really structured any good training in the last five weeks. So I don’t think I was match-ready to play best-of-five sets, but he played well today. So he was too good.”

Do you think Kyrgios critics should be lenient, under the circumstances?