{"id":17271,"date":"2022-01-29T21:43:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T16:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=187406"},"modified":"2022-01-29T21:43:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T16:13:46","slug":"australian-open-nick-kyrgios-and-thanasi-kokkinakis-win-mens-doubles-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/australian-open-nick-kyrgios-and-thanasi-kokkinakis-win-mens-doubles-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open: Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis win men\u2019s doubles title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Australian Open, the Australian Boys Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi who named as Special Ks. Won the men\u2019s doubles title beating compatriots Matthew Ebden and Max Purcell. Which was held at Rod Laver Arena on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The pair had to come in for a lot of criticism especially Nick Kyrgios. Because of their antics, during the time of their run to the final.<\/p>\n<p>The Special Ks have been sharing their special bond friendship since they were nine years old. They nicknamed the \u201cspecial Ks\u201d as junior. The duo was seen as too strong in a fight of unseeded pairs. Which made their winning by 7-6, 6-4 within the 1hr 35min.<\/p>\n<p>The dynamic duo made their opponents involved with in altercations. They entertained the crowed, had whipped up their boorish home fans into a frenzy. As well as argued with the Umpires and also made obscene gestures with including the smashed racquets.<\/p>\n<p>In the professional era, they are the first wildcard team, who win the title of Australian Open men\u2019s doubles.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa Our first all-Australian men's doubles champions in 2\ufe0f\u20e35\ufe0f\u20e3 years \u203c\ufe0f \ud83c\udfc6<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TKokkinakis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TKokkinakis<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickKyrgios?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NickKyrgios<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AusOpen?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AusOpen<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AO2022?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AO2022<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Huk4PcHVXb\">pic.twitter.com\/Huk4PcHVXb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustralianOpen\/status\/1487408952530792450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At the time of trophy presentation Kokkinakis said Kyrgios: \u201cNick, I love you brother\u201d. He further added they didn\u2019t expect to come close to this. He also mentioned the crowd and said it was unbelievable all week with the help of them (the crowd).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\"Nick, I love you brother.\"<\/p>\n<p>The bromance is well and truly alive with these two \ud83d\udc99\ud83c\udfc6<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TKokkinakis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TKokkinakis<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickKyrgios?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NickKyrgios<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AO2022?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AO2022<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AusOpen?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AusOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Et0SJZjzPM\">pic.twitter.com\/Et0SJZjzPM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustralianOpen\/status\/1487413964174766083?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian special Ks, Kyrgios and Kokkinakis won the title of men\u2019s doubles by beating compatriots Matthew Ebden and Max Purcell at Australian Open on Saturday on Rod Laver Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":38017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[689,2187,357,202,2957],"class_list":["post-17271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australian-open","tag-australian-open-2022","tag-nick-kyrgios","tag-tennis","tag-thanasi-kokkinakis"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}