{"id":61659,"date":"2025-07-13T07:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T07:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/61659\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T07:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T07:25:12","slug":"nick-kyrgios-apologises-to-rafael-nadal-after-forging-tennis-greats-signature-and-costing-him-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/61659\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios apologises to Rafael Nadal after forging tennis great&#8217;s signature and costing him thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Nick Kyrgios confessed to forging Rafael Nadal&#8217;s signature on bill<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Australian was angry after being &#8216;destroyed&#8217; by the tennis legend<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-143\/james-cooney.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JAMES COONEY FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  22:20 EDT, 12 July 2025   |  Updated:  22:22 EDT, 12 July 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Australian firebrand <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/nick_kyrgios\/index.html\" id=\"mol-484eb2f0-5f8d-11f0-a54d-7fd8821aa5e4\" rel=\"noopener\">Nick Kyrgios<\/a> has revealed that he forged <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/rafael-nadal\/index.html\" id=\"mol-484f2820-5f8d-11f0-a54d-7fd8821aa5e4\" rel=\"noopener\">Rafael Nadal<\/a>&#8216;s signature on a hotel bill following his loss to the tennis legend at the 2017 <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/china\/index.html\" id=\"mol-484208c0-5f8d-11f0-a54d-7fd8821aa5e4\" rel=\"noopener\">China<\/a> Open final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Kyrgios, who hasn&#8217;t always had a great relationship with Nadal, was beaten 6-2, 6-1 by the Spanish champ in <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/beijing\/index.html\" id=\"mol-48419390-5f8d-11f0-a54d-7fd8821aa5e4\" rel=\"noopener\">Beijing<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Kyrgios was devastated by the outcome and decided to take revenge after checking into a hotel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;He beat me in the final of Beijing, and he destroyed me,&#8217; Kyrgios told <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"class\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OHdJA98fe4I\">Talk Sport<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I was having a really good week, finals of Beijing, pretty big tournament. Then I get destroyed by Nadal.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Kyrgios said that later while having &#8216;a couple of wines&#8217; he came up with a plan to get Nadal back by charging his\u00a0hotel restaurant bill to the tennis great.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-dbc0d64e8a9cb234\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/100261101-14900617-image-m-49_1752372736077.jpg\" height=\"516\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Nick Kyrgios (pictured) says he forged Rafael Nadal 's signature on a hotel bill following his loss to the tennis legend at the 2017 China Open final\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Nick Kyrgios (pictured) says he forged Rafael Nadal &#8216;s signature on a hotel bill following his loss to the tennis legend at the 2017 China Open final<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-af91f34fa7266847\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/100261121-14900617-image-a-50_1752372746953.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The Aussie\u00a0was beaten 6-2 6-1 by the Spanish champ in Beijing in 2017\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The Aussie\u00a0was beaten 6-2 6-1 by the Spanish champ in Beijing in 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;This guy just destroyed me. Probably earned like over a million dollars that week, so you know what, I&#8217;m going to put all my room service&#8230; on Nadal&#8217;s room. I just signed it as Nadal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;The waitress had no idea and to this day I&#8217;m sorry, Raffa. If you got this outstanding couple of grand bill from me, I&#8217;m sorry. Actually, I&#8217;m not sorry at all you&#8217;ve earned too much cash in your career.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Last week, Kyrgios named Jack Draper and Coco Gauff as the two players who he feels have underperformed while at Wimbledon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I am going to be brutally honest. I think my first disappointment is Draper to be honest,&#8217; Kyrgios told Talk Sport.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;You&#8217;re seeded four. I did like the accountability. He went into the press conference room and said he is not comfortable on grass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;But you have won the tournament on grass, you have won Stuttgart which is a lead up tournament. I think it was a bit of an easy cop-out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I wish I could have just gone into the press conference room in my home country when I lost to Andy Murray in the quarters and said &#8220;well, hard court is not my preferred surface&#8221; because grass is. I felt like I wanted more from him this year at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;And then probably Coco Gauff to be honest. Winning a French Open and then bailing out first round pretty convincingly as well. A 6-1 set.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-b84ff294d3350f5c\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/100261125-14900617-image-a-51_1752372763874.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Kyrgios explained that the waitress had no idea he had signed the wrong signature\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Kyrgios explained that the waitress had no idea he had signed the wrong signature<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It&#8217;s hard to see that in the men&#8217;s game, you rarely see someone that is winning the French Open and then losing first round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;She is a hell of a player and she is going to be at the top of the game for a long, long time but I was expecting more from her too.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Nick Kyrgios apologises to Rafael Nadal after forging tennis great&#8217;s signature and costing him thousands<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios confessed to forging Rafael Nadal&#8217;s signature on bill Australian was angry after being &#8216;destroyed&#8217; by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[9710,2210,211,6532,3886,1926,62,1464,67,132,68,2071],"class_list":{"0":"post-61659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-coco-gauff","10":"tag-dailymail","11":"tag-nick-kyrgios","12":"tag-rafael-nadal","13":"tag-sport","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tennis","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-wimbledon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114844737615447136","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}