NEW YORK — Andy Murray is facing one of tennis' top young players in the first round of the U.S. Open, a guy who just missed out on a seed.
The third-seeded Murray's meeting with Nick Kyrgios was going to be intriguing based simply on talent, though that's not why the 20-year-old has folks talking these days.
The last time Kyrgios played a two-time major champion, he earned himself thousands of dollars in fines and a potential suspension. After he defeated Stan Wawrinka in Montreal on Aug. 12, a courtside microphone picked up Kyrgios saying that fellow Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis had slept with a player who reportedly is now Wawrinka's girlfriend.