Murray cruises through in Aussie Open, as Kyrgios crashes out
Melbourne — Top seed Andy Murray sped into the third round of the Australian Open on Wednesday, but Australian bad boy Nick Kyrgios was booed and accused of not trying as he crashed to a stormy defeat. Murray painfully rolled an ankle and needed treatment in the third set against Russian qualifier Andrey Rublev, but he shook off the problem to win 6-3, 6-0, 6-2. While the world number one cruised, Kyrgios stood accused of tanking, or giving up, during his 1-6, 6-7 (1/7), 6-4, 6-2, 10-8 loss to Andreas Seppi. Kyrgios, who is returning from a ban for "lack of best efforts" in a match in Shanghai, played lethargically and casually, especially in the fifth set. "Obviously it’s not the greatest thing to hear," he said of the booing. "I didn’t have the best preparation coming into the Australian Open. Pretty banged up, my body. I don’t even know what the score was in the end. Was it 10-8? 10-8 in the fifth, getting booed off, definitely not the best feeling." Tennis legend John McEnroe sa...
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