Nick Kyrgios has the unwelcome distinction of receiving the most fines in tennis history, but at least he may find solace in the knowledge that the money is donated to a worthy cause, know his total career penalty list
In his tennis career, Nick Kyrgios has accrued an astounding number of fines totaling around A$800,000 (£452,000).
Nick Kyrgios Tennis Career Total Fines List And When And Why Did He Receive The Penalties
The most penalised athlete in the history of the sport is an Australian hot head. And at Wimbledon this year, he has already doubled that record.
After being fined £8,211 for spitting at spectators after defeating British player Paul Jubb in the first round, Kyrgios has now been assessed his second fine of the competition in the amount of £3,300.
It follows his heated third-round match with fourth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas, during which he yelled at the referee and requested that his opponent be declared the winner because the latter had smacked the ball into the spectators.
He claimed last month during an appearance on the Turn up the Talk show that “any fines I receive go to charity. It applies to everyone. Therefore, they claim that any fines we receive are donated to charity.”
In addition, Kyrgios is the owner of the record for the largest punishment in history, a staggering £131,000 for a code of conduct infraction during a 2019 match against Karen Khachanov. But he feels that because of his reputation, he is treated unfairly.
If you compare what I did to what other players have done, Kyrgios claimed, “I feel like I would have been suspended for like three or four years.”
When a player was angry, he once flung a ball at an umpire, striking him in the eye and requiring surgery. He didn’t mean to especially target him, but he lost control.
He ought to have launched the ball into the air, struck the umpire in the eye, and been penalised $5,000. And for doing this with a water bottle during this competition, I was fined £15,000.
Kyrgios was pointing to Denis Shapovalov, who received a $7,000 (£5,623) fine for the incident at the 2017 Davis Cup that necessitated surgery for umpire Arnaud Gabas.