Nick Kyrgios loses cool over towels in heat of US Open first-round defeat

Australian exits after straight set loss to Roberto Bautista Agut
Kyrgios verbally clashes with umpire over placement of towels

Nick Kyrgios has crashed out of the US Open in all-too-familiar fashion, losing his cool at anything and everything in a lively straight-sets first-round defeat to Roberto Bautista Agut.

Struggling to adjust to New York’s intense humidity and tennis’s strict new Covid protocols, Kyrgios overheated in more ways than one during a 6-3, 6-4, 6-0 loss to Spain’s dogged 18th seed. He also took aim at “bogans” in his box for being “the only ones in here wearing masks”.