{"id":203859,"date":"2025-06-22T00:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T00:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/203859\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T00:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T00:46:09","slug":"tennis-live-two-top-wimbledon-seeds-withdraw-as-jack-draper-fumes-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/203859\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis LIVE: Two top Wimbledon seeds withdraw as Jack Draper fumes | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Kyrgios has taken a brutal swipe at the pundit who will replace him on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/bbc\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/wimbledon\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wimbledon<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Australian was a popular debutant in the commentary box at SW19 in 2024, but has been axed for this year&#8217;s edition of the Grand Slam.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/jun\/21\/nick-kyrgios-if-id-acted-a-bit-differently-i-would-have-had-a-wimbledon-title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a>, Kyrgios has revealed his replacement. He claimed the broadcaster would instead be using Chris Eubanks, currently ranked No. 108 in the world. And he made a brutal comparison over their respective professional records.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate but it\u2019s probably their loss more than mine,\u201d he said. \u201cI understand they\u2019ve got Chris Eubanks but he hasn\u2019t beaten the greatest of all time multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When someone\u2019s beaten [Roger] Federer, [Rafael] Nadal, [Andy] Murray and [Novak] Djokovic and has incredible insights, it\u2019s very strange you wouldn\u2019t want that person adding knowledge to tennis fans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios has taken a brutal swipe at the pundit who will replace him on the BBC at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[6359,6740,80119,5005,4718,9461,52299,79,1068,31635,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-203859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","9":"tag-coco-gauff","10":"tag-hsbc-championships","11":"tag-jack-draper","12":"tag-jannik-sinner","13":"tag-live","14":"tag-queens","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tennis","17":"tag-tennis-section","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114724259970476281","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}