Nick Kyrgios took a swipe at Pat Cash after reading about how the 1987 Wimbledon champion once lost to a 14-year-old Rafael Nadal.
“Doesn’t really surprise me at all, pat cash wouldn’t win games now,” Kyrgios wrote on Twitter.
Doesn’t really surprise me at all, pat cash wouldn’t win games now 😂
— Nicholas Kyrgios (@NickKyrgios) February 6, 2023
When a 14-year-old Nadal took on Cash, he didn’t show any fear.
After the match was over, Cash and those who witnessed what happened were in disbelief.
“99 percent of the kids would have choked and fallen apart. He was just tearing it up everywhere, all over the court, and hit some unbelievable winners. At the time, I was 38 and was still hitting the ball pretty well. I lost that match, I don’t remember what the score was, but it was close. He didn’t get nervous or anything. I came into the locker room after, the guys sort of looked at me, just to look at my reaction. And my reaction was losing to a 14-year-old and I just sort of looked at them and said, ‘Wow, this kid is something else!” Cash said of his meeting with a 14-year-old Nadal.
Cash took a shot at Kyrgios before the Australian Open
After Tennis Australia announced that Kyrgios and Novak Djokovic would play an exhibition at Rod Laver Arena three days before the start of the Australian Open, Cash unloaded on the governing body of tennis in Australia.
“What’s quite extraordinary, it’s actually hard to believe, Tennis Australia is putting on an event, on centre court, for Nick and Djokovic – I don’t know, is Novak gonna play, has he pulled out of it? In what country, in what grand slam – would you have Wimbledon suddenly pulling out centre court or court 1 because Andy Murray needed a practice match? It’s hard to believe, they certainly wouldn’t do it at the French Open. There’s kids day and whatever and you go and play that. At the French Open it wouldn’t happen. They’ve bent over backwards to help Nick to get some matches and to do this, I don’t know,” Cash said in January.
When Kyrgios’ manager Daniel Horsfall was asked about Cash’s comments, he called the former Wimbledon champion “out of touch.”
All the proceeds from the Kyrgios and Djokovic exhibition were donated to charity.