{"id":598,"date":"2025-07-11T04:47:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T04:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/598\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T04:47:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T04:47:03","slug":"ive-never-told-anyone-that-kyrgios-issues-apology-to-nadal-over-wild-revenge-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/598\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I’ve never told anyone that’ – Kyrgios issues apology to Nadal over wild revenge plot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nick Kyrgios has recalled leaving an expensive bar tab under Rafael Nadal’s name as revenge for a thumping defeat to him.<\/p>\n

Kyrgios<\/a> stormed to the final of the 2017 China Open by dropping just a single set across four matches in Beijing.<\/p>\n

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Kyrgios battled for another ATP title to add to his collectionCredit: Getty\"But<\/a><\/p>\n

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But Nadal was too strong in their visit to BeijingCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

Awaiting him was Nadal<\/a>, who by that point had won 16 of his 22 Grand Slam titles, including that year’s French and US Opens.<\/p>\n

The Spanish legend exhibited his world-class talent by winning 6-2 6-1 against his Australian opponent in a convincing victory.<\/p>\n

Speaking on talkSPORT’s Wimbledon: Unfiltered<\/a>, Kyrgios revealed his post-match antics involving wine and a hefty hotel bill.<\/p>\n

“He beat me in the final of Beijing, and he destroyed me. I was having a really good week, finals of Beijing, pretty big tournament,” Kyrgios said.<\/p>\n

“I get destroyed by Nadal. Having a couple of wines that night, having a couple of drinks with my boys. I was like, ‘You know what? This guy just destroyed me, probably earned over $1million that week.’ <\/p>\n

“I was like, ‘You know what? I’m going to put all of my room service…’ It was actually in a hotel restaurant, I just put it on Nadal’s room and I just signed it as Nadal.<\/p>\n

“The waitress had no idea so to this day, I’m sorry Rafa if you got this outstanding couple grand bill from me. <\/p>\n

“I’m sorry… Actually, I’m not sorry at all, you’ve earned way too much cash in your career.”<\/p>\n

Kyrgios added: “I’ve actually never told anyone that… He has no idea.<\/p>\n

“To be honest, me and Nadal didn’t speak much in our career, pretty much not at all, really.”<\/p>\n

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Nadal won in straight sets, with Kyrgios only able to take three games from himCredit: Getty\"In<\/a><\/p>\n

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In response, Kyrgios wanted Nadal to pay for his bar billCredit: talkSPORT<\/p>\n

The 2017 China Open final was the fifth match between Kyrgios and Nadal, the latter of which won six of their total ten meetings.<\/p>\n

Kyrgios won the first in 2014 with a 7-6 [7-5] 5-7 7-6 [7-5] 6-3 triumph in the last 16 at Wimbledon, the Aussie doing so as a wildcard entry.<\/p>\n

It helped him become one of three players to beat the ‘Big Three’ – Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Nadal – at the first time of asking.<\/p>\n

Only Dominik Hrbaty and Lleyton Hewitt have done the same.<\/p>\n

Nadal then beat him in Rome and Madrid, before a clash in Cincinnati ended in favour of Kyrgios.<\/p>\n

He later won in Acapulco after Beijing, but three successive wins for Nadal followed at Wimbledon<\/a>, the Australian Open and Indian Wells.<\/p>\n

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Nadal won 92 titles throughout his legendary careerCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

A 2022 Wimbledon semi-final was due to be their most recent clash on the court.<\/p>\n

But Nadal withdrew due to injury, with Kyrgios losing to Djokovic over four sets in the final.<\/p>\n

Watch Wimbledon: Unfiltered with Nick Kyrgios every day on talkSPORT throughout the tournament from 8pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios has recalled leaving an expensive bar tab under Rafael Nadal’s name as revenge for a thumping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[550,814,812,813,99,815,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-china-open","10":"tag-nick-kyrgios","11":"tag-rafael-nadal","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-talksport","14":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}