Fraser tells Kyrgios: “go back to where his parents came from”

Sporting icon Dawn Fraser has told tennis star Nick Kyrgios to ‘go back to where his parents came from’ following his stormy exit from Wimbledon.

Asked to comment on Kyrgios’ antics during his fourth-round grand-slam loss Fraser accused him of ‘tanking’ and setting a poor example for ‘the younger generations of this country.”If they don’t like it they can go back to where their fathers, or their parents came from. We don’t need them here in this country to act like that,’ Fraser told the Nine Network on Tuesday morning.

Born in Canberra, 20-year-old Kyrgios is the son of a Greek-born father and Malaysian-born mother.He was booed on court during his loss to Frenchman Richard Gasquet after he appeared to deliberately fail to return serves during the third game of the second set.

Kyrgios hit back on Facebook accusing Fraser of being a racist: ‘Throwing a racket, brat. Debating the rules, disrespectful. Frustrated when competing, spoilt. Showing emotion, arrogant. Blatant racist, Australian legend.’

A short time later, Fraser stood by her comments during an interview with 3AW, saying Kyrgios wasn’t ‘a very likeable guy’.’When he goes out and does his press interviews to the media he’s not a very likeable guy, as far as being an Australian is concerned,’ she said.She compared the young tennis star to hot-tempered US player John McEnroe, and labelled Kyrgios’ outbursts ‘disgraceful’.’We all had a go at Lleyton Hewitt but his outbursts were to himself, not to the officials,’ she said.’Are we seeing John McEnroe over again?”It’s just disgraceful.’

source:skynews.com.au