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Do you hear music ? Nick Kyrgios does

Nick Kyrgios went a little batty during the second set of his 6-3 6-4 1-6 6-4 loss to Tomas Berdych in the final match on Rod Laver Arena on Day 5. The Aussie contested that somebody was playing music in the crowd and proceeded to delay play and get into some heated dialog with umpire James Keothavong.

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Eventually the “noise” died down and Kyrgios got back to business to play some pretty entertaining tennis. But that didn’t stop him from telling the umpire that he was a “terrible referee” at the handshake.

After the handshake Berdych talked to Keothavong and gave him some support. "I just told him that it was a difficult match,” Berdych said. “I know him, that he can do better than that, because I think he has a couple of things that might be different. But, I mean, not a big deal. It's just the way as it is. Same as me, I can have a great match, not doing any mistakes, then winning very close and playing not really well.”

As far as the mystery noise goes, Berdych wasn’t sure if he heard anything but he was dead-set on not letting it bother him either way. “Well, honestly, difficult,” Berdych said. “I mean, it was probably on my side. I don't know. But I was really just trying to stay focus, trying to be close for myself, and that's it. I've been through many very loud matches, so I'm probably very, you know, able to block these things, you know, just leave the noise on the side. So, you know, it's questionable. So difficult to say.”

Here’s the transcript from Kyrgios’ presser on the subject of the crowd noise:

Q. We couldn't hear from the monitors, but what exactly was happening? Was there actual music playing?
NICK KYRGIOS: Unless I'm hearing things. Yeah, I thought there was music playing. Did anyone else hear it in here?

Q. I could hear it.
NICK KYRGIOS: Great. So there you go.

Q. Did it come from --
NICK KYRGIOS: I don't know where it came from. The ref was telling me he couldn't hear it. I could blatantly hear it. So unless tennis, you can start playing tennis when there's music in the background, that's a new rule. They need to add it to the rule book.

Q. Maybe it came from the MCG.
NICK KYRGIOS: Didn't sound that loud. If it was, then it's my bad. But it suddenly stopped at change of ends.

Q. Did it distract you from playing your own game?
NICK KYRGIOS: Not necessarily. It was just strange. He was telling me he couldn't hear it. I don't know, I just thought he might have used the microphone to say, Could you quiet it down. I don't know. I've never had it happen to me before.