Alex de Minaur makes Australian tennis fans ask ‘who is Nick Kyrgios?’ after US Open epic against Marin Cilic

Aussie teenager Alex de Minaur put in a heroic performance
against Marin Cilic in the third round of the US Open at Flushing
Meadows.

The world number 45 never stopped running in a five-set thriller
that ended at 2:23am local time.

After winning the first two sets, de Minaur dropped the next two
as Cilic showed his class and experience.

In the deciding fifth set, de Minaur saved six match-points and
worked his way back from 5-2 to level the scores at 5-5.

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World number seven Cilic proved too canny in the end though,
taking the fifth set and the match 4-6 3-6 6-3 6-4 7-5.

Earlier in the day, Nick Kyrgios went down in three sets to
Roger Federer. There’s no real shame in that scoreline – Federer is
an all-time great – but it’s the way he went out that left a
familiar bad taste.

Kyrgios, ranked 30 in the world, yelled at his box and seemed
uninterested in losing the second set 6-1.

It’s not the first time the 23-year-old has frustrated fans and
followers. We don’t need to go into all the gory details….

Suffice it to say that social media was reacting to the
contrasting results exactly as you’d expect.

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