Originally Posted by Lisa.B:
“There's showing frustration and then there's smacking balls into the crowd, throwing racquets into the crowd, grabbing an umpire, screaming at ballkids, etc, etc. It's not very zen-like and I'm sure his spiritual guru wouldn't approve. It's like one rule for a top player and another rule for the lesser down in terms of punishments dished out for on court conduct.
He's probably the most in need of the off-season just to count to 10 and take a few deep breaths for a while and get his head right, before he mentally burns himself out completely.”
It's all a bit like Kyrgios. A bit of hot-headed behaviour on court isn't particularly unusual, but the vast majority quickly realise it was wrong, and are contrite by the time the press conference rolls around. Of course the press will ask about it, and it's not a conspiracy to do so.
Congratulations to Amelie. Hopefully people won't be quite so surprised this time.