Tennis superstar Nick Kyrgios parties with mystery women at London nightclub
TENNIS brat Nick Kyrgios drowned his Wimbledon sorrows on an all-night bender with two mystery women. Now, they’ve been identified.
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TENNIS brat Nick Kyrgios drowned his Wimbledon sorrows on an all-night bender with two mystery women in London. Now, they’ve been identified.
Australian-born Monique Belovukovic and British-born Chelsea Samways partied with the tennis ace, 22, outside the infamous Cirque Le Soir nightclub in trendy Soho at 3am on Tuesday, hours after he withdrew from the famed tournament complaining of hip pain.
Kyrgios was accompanied by Belovukovic, the blonde, and Samways, the brunette, along with a male friend or minder.
Daily Mail reports that both Belovukovic and Samways are rising tennis players, known for sharing racy photos on social media.
In the series of embarrassing pictures, Kyrgios can be seen hanging out the window of a car and looking worse for wear on the street holding what appeared to be an unlit cigarette.
Commentary in the wake of the pictures surfacing led some to wonder where his long-time girlfriend, Croatian-Australian tennis player Ajla Tomljanovic, was.
“A blonde and a brunette, no wonder he’s got dodgy hips ... ” Sunrise co-host Sam Armytage said on Thursday morning. “Where was the girlfriend?”
His decision to withdraw due to an ongoing hip injury, while 3-6, 4-6 down to Herbert, meant his Wimbledon campaign was over in an hour on day one on Monday. He would have picked up a cheque for around $65,000 for his first-round loss.
The hugely-talented Kyrgios is considered one of Australian tennis’s great future hopes but he has become better known for his on-court antics — abusing officials and smashing racquets — than he has for his game.
“If he can put one foot in front of the other, he should be on the court,” Channel Seven sports reporter Mark Beretta said of the pictures. “If you can be out at a nightclub you can play Wimbledon.”
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Off the court, he is not considered a party-boy, and is rarely spotted out late, preferring instead to have an occasional quiet drink at the Dog and Fox pub in Wimbledon village.
He also hangs out at the home in Wimbledon, in south London, that he has rented with his family, including father George and mother Nill, from Canberra.
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His girlfriend of more than a year, Croatian-Australian tennis player Ajla Tomljanovic, 24, is believed to have been at the home this week.
Photographs taken of Kyrgios’ late night show the dejected-looking Australian, wearing a dark jacket and jeans, leaning against a wall, talking to the young women, and climbing out of the back of a car, as well as leaning out of the window.
The party continued until the sun came up.
Cirque Le Soir is a circus-themed nightclub and celebrity hangout in London’s Soho district, favoured by the likes of pop stars Rihanna and Lady Gaga, the model Cara Delevingne and actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
It frequently courts controversy, including in February when it excluded NFL player Mark Ingram and three of his New Orleans Saints teammates for looking “too urban.’’
In 2015, there was uproar when a promoter told a woman looking to attend the venue that “no big/fat girls/guys’’ would be allowed in.
Originally published as Tennis superstar Nick Kyrgios parties with mystery women at London nightclub
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