The Australian perhaps could have even argued that his yell was not a hindrance because the entire crowd was rallying against Thiem the whole time, and he still ended up coming out on top, something the 25-year-old complimented his opponent on in the post match presser. Kyrgios was then put in the position to argue that his yelling was no different, or more distracting, than the grunts of other players.
Kyrgios also had another row with the umpire overseeing things, as he was given a hindrance call. "I could definitely feel he was going away towards the end of the second. "If I take one of those break points early in the third set, I think the match is over in an hour and 45 minutes," said Kyrgios, per ATP. The final score wound up reading as a 4-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 Thiem victory. There were many mistakes that Kyrgios had to deal with through the remaining sets, and they began piling up fast as he held two break points on Thiem's serve in the opening game of the third set. Thiem, the winner of last year's US Open, repeated his performance from that final in Flushing Meadows - the first man in 71 years to come back from a two set deficit in that tournament - winning three straight sets to defeat his Australian opponent and move on to the next round. As it turns out, that would be the last time those in attendance would celebrate a victorious set from the 25-year-old who is, depending on who you ask, either the most infuriatingly arrogant player on the tour, or one of the most entertaining. An underhanded serve got the tournament's last live crowd for some days on their feet as they cheered for their countryman's success. The crowd was in Nick Kyrgios's hand when he clinched the second set against Dominic Thiem on Friday.
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