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Kyrgios Fires Back at One Critic

John McEnroe takes a stab, I understand, Roger Rasheed haha maybe not so much. I got to ur career high when I was 18... ease up champ 🤔
— Nicholas Kyrgios (@NickKyrgios) September 5, 2016

Nick Kyrgios was lambasted by John McEnroe on Friday night during his loss to Ilya Marchenko that ended in retirement. "If you don't want to be a professional tennis player, do something else," McEnroe said while commentating Kyrgios' match. But McEnroe wasn’t the only one that spoke out against Kyrgios. Roger Rasheed, former coach of Gael Monfils, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Lleyton Hewitt, also joined the fray.

“It seems to be an injury that isn’t really there until a little bit of fatigue sets into the joint and then all of a sudden it exaggerates,” Rasheed said of Kyrgios, according to Tyson Otto of News.Com.Au sports. “I think what John was more saying is that we all play with a few injuries, but you could also knuckle down and compete and fight and sort of scrap your way through and not go the other way. Just give us everything.”

Kyrgios took to Twitter to voice his displeasure with Rasheed, calling out the former world No. 192 for his lack of a top-notch ranking during his playing career. But the Aussie gave McEnroe a pass, saying he “understood."

"I got to your ranking when I was 18," Kyrgios tweeted at Rasheed, adding:" Ease up champ.”

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