{"id":202579,"date":"2020-01-09T00:25:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T00:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/stefanos-tsitsipas-accidentally-hits-father-with-racket-during-outburst-between-sets.html"},"modified":"2020-01-09T00:25:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T00:25:27","slug":"stefanos-tsitsipas-accidentally-hits-father-with-racket-during-outburst-between-sets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/tennis\/stefanos-tsitsipas-accidentally-hits-father-with-racket-during-outburst-between-sets.html","title":{"rendered":"Stefanos Tsitsipas incidentally hits father with pole during outburst between sets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Normally, <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Nick Kyrgios has a misfortune temper<\/a> on a tennis court. His competition outdid him this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">After Kyrgios took a initial set on a fifth day of a ATP Cup from sixth-ranked\u00a0Stefanos Tsitsipas on a tiebreaker \u2014 and eventually won a match\u00a07-6 (7), 6-7( 3), 7-6 (5) \u2014\u00a0Tsitsipas unleashed a harangue that enclosed destroying a pole in his hand.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">An unintended misadventure of a outburst? His father and Greek captain Apostolos Tsitsipas. During one of his attempts to destroy a racket, a younger\u00a0Tsitsipas incidentally strike his father in a arm<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">That led to\u00a0Tsitsipas&#8217; mother, Julia, emerging\u00a0from a throng to mount behind a dais and impugn her 21-year-old son for his behavior.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_tw\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"loadTwitter\" data-v-id=\"1214508886830538753\" aria-label=\"Twitter Embed\"><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;It happened accidentally, we didn&#8217;t meant to do it and true divided forgot about it and changed on from there,&#8221; Tsitsipas told reporters after a match. &#8220;It happens, we wasn&#8217;t aiming to do that. It only went out of control, unfortunately.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;Maybe I&#8217;ll stay in my room for 3 days, grounded by my father,&#8221; he also joked.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\"><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/df49c_ae236ad9-1007-413e-b45f-63cd7e8e7e64-Stefanos_Tsitsipas.JPG\" data-gl-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2020\/01\/08\/USAT\/ae236ad9-1007-413e-b45f-63cd7e8e7e64-Stefanos_Tsitsipas.JPG?width=1320height=870fit=cropformat=pjpgauto=webp 2x\" alt=\"Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece celebrates after winning a second set in his compare opposite Nick Kyrgios of Australia.\" \/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Tsitsipas is a former youth universe No. 1 and done it to a semifinals of a Australian Open final year. He incited pro in 2017 and has risen fast to a tip of a sport, in partial interjection to a absolute offer and one-handed backhand. Last year, he degraded Dominic Thiem during a ATP Finals in London.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Contributing: Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><img class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/1bad0_ef47e6a2-4532-497b-a462-853412282874-USATSI_13332107.jpg\" data-gl-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/09\/09\/USAT\/ef47e6a2-4532-497b-a462-853412282874-USATSI_13332107.jpg?crop=3128,1760,x0,y294width=1320height=744format=pjpgauto=webp 2x\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/rssfeeds.usatoday.com\/~\/615356198\/0\/usatodaytennis-topstories~Stefanos-Tsitsipas-accidentally-hits-father-with-racket-during-outburst-between-sets\/<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, Nick Kyrgios has a misfortune temper on a tennis court. His competition outdid him this time.\u00a0 After Kyrgios took a initial set on a fifth day of a ATP Cup from sixth-ranked\u00a0Stefanos Tsitsipas on a tiebreaker \u2014 and eventually won a match\u00a07-6 (7), 6-7( 3), 7-6 (5) \u2014\u00a0Tsitsipas unleashed a harangue that enclosed destroying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[135],"class_list":["post-202579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}