Erin Molan and Piers Morgan blast ‘absolute tool’ Nick Kyrgios after Wimbledon meltdown

Erin Molan has joined the chorus of critics hating on Nick Kyrgios after the Aussie tennis star’s petulant Wimbledon outburst.

Erin Molan was among many to slam Nick Kyrgios.

Erin Molan and Piers Morgan have slammed Nick Kyrgios after the Aussie tennis star’s outburst during his first-round win at Wimbledon.

On his way to a five-set victory over Paul Jubb on Wednesday morning, Kyrgios branded one line judge a “snitch” with “no fans”, argued with the chair umpire and spit in the direction of spectators he said were being disrespectful.

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The Canberran continued to breathe fire in his post-match press conference — where he was eating pasta in between answers — refusing to apologise for his behaviour, doubling down on his accusations against misbehaving fans and denying he had any sympathy for officials.

He was widely slammed in the tennis world and Molan and Morgan joined the chorus of critics on Wednesday night when speaking on Sky News’ Piers Morgan Uncensored.

“He’s basically a pig. He’s eating his food as he talks to the media, he abuses a female lineswoman, he abuses an elderly linesman, he abuses the crowd, he spits at one of them,” Morgan said.

“The man is out of control. Can you put up any defence for this antipodean monster?”

Molan replied: “Piers, there’s plenty of Australians who think he’s an absolute tool as well.

“I’ve been one of his most vocal critics for a very long time.

“But I’ll tell you what, the spitting even towards someone in their direction is appalling.

“The abuse of anyone in their workplace is appalling, the hypocrisy that he displays is completely appalling.

“He replied to someone on social media overnight that had taken him to task over this and said, ‘Oh, but I would never go into your workplace and abuse you’.

“Does he think the linesmen are volunteers? That’s their workplace he’s abusing them (in).

“But he is entertaining. He won the doubles here in Australia with his mate, the special K’s they called them. It puts bums on seats and people watch, it is like a car crash.”

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Swear Kyrgios spits at some bloke in the crowd who was cheering for Jubb. 😆 Mad’ead! #Wimbeldon2022pic.twitter.com/gkQWHhv6BY

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Nick Kyrgios lost his temper yet again. (Photo by Adrian DENNIS / AFP)

Kyrgios didn’t believe he did anything wrong against Jubb, instead blaming spectators for crossing the line and officials for not doing a good enough job.

“A lot of disrespect was being thrown today from the crowds,” he said. “I’m just starting to think that it’s normal when it’s really not.

“I didn’t say anything to the crowd until they started just every time I came down to the far end, people just going. It’s just I don’t know if it’s normal or not.

“Just pure disrespect, just anything. Someone just yelled out I was s**t in the crowd today. Is that normal? No. I just don’t understand why it’s happening over and over again.”

The 27-year-old said it was unfair fans could verbally abuse him, but he could do nothing about it.

“Look, I’m OK with receiving a lot of it. But what I don’t understand is as soon as I give it back, for instance in Stuttgart I gave it back, I got a game penalty,” Kyrgios said.

“Today, as soon as I won the match, I turned to him … I’ve been dealing with hate and negativity for a long time, so I don’t feel like I owed that person anything.

“Like, he literally came to the match to literally just, like, not even support anyone really. It was more just to, like, stir up and disrespect.

“That’s fine. But if I give it back to you, then that’s just how it is.

“There’s a fence there and I physically can’t do anything or say anything because I’ll get in trouble. They’re able to say anything they want.”