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Nick Kyrgios mocks Tony Jones with scathing Instagram skit

Novack responds…
This isn’t the first time Kyrgios has hit out at Jones in the past few days

Back to the tennis quickly…

Let’s just zoom in quick to see what was on Kyrgios’ shirt

Meanwhile, Djokovic has been branded a ‘drama queen!’


Elon Musk and Piers Morgan have even weighed in on the spat…

Tony Jones’ apology
The comments were made on the news on the Friday night, which I considered to be banter,’ Jones said on the Today Show.
I considered it to be humour, which is consistent with most things I do, whether it be the Sunday Footy Show or whether it be the Morning Show here.
Having said that, I was made aware on the Saturday morning from Tennis Australia via the Djokovic camp that the Djokovic camp was not happy at all with those comments.
Now, as such, I immediately contacted the Djokovic camp and issued an apology to them. So this is 48 hours ago.
For any disrespect that Novak felt that I’d caused, and as I stand here now, I stand by that apology to Novak if he felt any disrespect, which quite clearly he does.
They come here with the flags and they provide so much colour and so much passion, and there was banter so I thought what I was doing was an extension of that banter,’ he said.
Quite clearly that hasn’t been interpreted that way, so I do feel as though I’ve let down the Serbian fans.
I’m just saying and not to try and wriggle out of trouble or anything, I genuinely feel for those fans.
Now I can stand here and put whatever spin I want in that, but it can only be interpreted as a throwback to the COVID years when he was kicked out (of Australia for not having a visa),’ he added.
Now that has angered Novak, which I completely understand now.
It’s an unfortunate situation. It’s been one of personal angst for Novak. It’s quite clearly personal angst for me as well. But I think the priority here now is to focus on the tennis again.