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Tennis-Former top golfer Norman slams 'stupid' Kyrgios, Tomic (Reuters)

MELBOURNE, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Former world number one golfer Greg Norman has lashed young Australian tennis players Nick Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic for behaving "stupidly" on tour and offered to lecture them face-to-face on the values of good sportsmanship.

Tomic and Kyrgios have drawn scathing criticism from players and pundits for a raft of transgressions on and off the court.

World number 20 Tomic has clashed with Australian tennis officials over funding and was arrested by Miami police for holding a noisy hotel room party earlier this year.

Kyrgios, ranked 32, was roundly condemned for a lewd slur directed at opponent Stan Wawrinka during a match in Canada and has continued to rack up fines for poor on-court behaviour on the Asian swing of the ATP tour.