Nick Kyrgios jeered at Mexican Open after retiring with wrist injury

Nick Kyrgios accused the crowd of “disrespect” after bowing out of his Mexican Open opening match injured.

The Australian was booed and jeered in Acapulco – where he is the defending champion – as he fell to a 6-3 first-set loss against Frenchman Ugo Humbert.

The 24-year-old retired at the end of the set after just 32 minutes.

And in a post-match press conference littered with expletives, he said: “I’m not healthy, I tried to come here. I tried to play. I’ve been doing media for the tournament, been helping out. I tried to give the fans a little bit of tennis. And their disrespect?”

Kyrgios said he was nursing a left wrist injury at a tournament where Kyle Edmund takes on Canada’s Felix Auger Aliassime later today in the last 16.