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Australian Open Nick Kyrgios takes aim at team box during first-round match

It didn’t take long — just two games in fact — but Nick Kyrgios was back to his prickly best on John Cain Arena at the Australian Open on Monday evening [AEDT].

Down a break at 0-2 in the first set against Portugal’s Frederico Ferreira Silva, Kyrgios turned his attention to his player’s box, loudly exclaiming: “Tell your girlfriend to get out of my box!”

It’s unclear who exactly he was referring to, but it proved the catalyst for a quick turnaround in fortunes; Kyrgios quickly broke back and evened the contest at 2-2, then muttering under his breath: “Wonder why?”

From there, the Australian was well on his way to taking a 5-4 lead in the set before again halting proceedings, this time berating a member of the crowd for speaking between his opponent’s first and second serves.

“Be quiet bro, have some respect for the kid,” Kyrgios said.

He approached the chair umpire after the game, asking him loudly if he was going to do anything about it.

Kyrgios went on to take the first set 6-4 and was rarely troubled for the rest of his encounter, occasionally offering himself some advice, and at one point asking his opponent for an unused towel during a change of ends.

Kyrgios closed out the match 6-4, 6-4, 6-4, but said he was far from playing his best tennis.

“Honestly it was pretty average. I haven’t played a Grand Slam match in over a year. I was nervous,” he said on court following the win.

“(But) it was special; I appreciate [the crowd for] coming out. It was a strange year, and we all overcame it together to make it possible. It felt normal, to be honest, it was good to see [the crowd was] going nuts”

Kyrgios faces Frenchman Ugo Humbert in the second round.



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Serena Williams Shows Off Her Miami Home, Kaws Elmo Chair, Clear Piano

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Serena Williams is Architectural Digest’s new cover star. In the feature, written by former Teen Vogue editor-in-chief Elaine Welteroth, Williams walks AD through her Miami enclave, designed by sister Venus’s design firm V Starr. It’s a lot.

There’s a karaoke room, and textured rock walls, and a dining room covered in over a dozen brass pendant lamps of all shapes and sizes. The house is overflowing with color and art and trophies, but the room which most caught my eye was her office. In it are two chairs, both pink. One is a modest office-model chair. The other is, quite surprisingly, a gamer chair. First made famous amongst PC gamers for their racecar-like design—legend has it the early models were made by a racing car company—these days, they are most popularly seen occupied by famous Twitch streamers, with the cash to dish out for them. It would appear that Serena’s model is only $200, for any interested.

Does Serena Williams game?

Yes, actually. She recently starred in a Nintendo Switch advertisement over the holidays, and also released a convoluted Snapchat game with Gatorade back in 2016. But in that office in particular, when she has a whole suite of comfy, cozy rooms to kick back in with Super Mario Bros.? Probably not.

The chair is just comfortable!

But I am also one of a very few people that might actually feel some sort of emotion about Serena Williams’ gamer chair, so here are the other highlights from the house tour.

This is her karaoke room, complete with instruments and a bar.

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My personal favorite room is the living room, which she calls the gallery, where all the art is. There’s a dead Elmo armchair from KAWS, and a Radcliffe Bailey wall mural that features actual moon rocks. All things most people decorate a living room with.

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Another stand-out piece in her gallery is a clear Wurlitzer piano, which she bought because she wanted a piano for her daughter to play, “but didn’t want it to be so heavy.” It’s so expensive that I couldn’t even find a price for it online.

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She also has a trophy room, because of course.

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The rest of her house is hidden behind the magazine’s paywall, but she is gracious enough to leave those of us without Architectural Digest subscriptions with a closing shot of her concealed bookcase door.

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Tennis legend Margaret Court to receive top Australian honor; faces massive backlash over anti-LGBT views

Margaret Court, a tennis legend who won each of the sport’s four major tournaments multiple times and has created controversy over her anti-LGBT views, is set to be honored on Australia Day.

However, the decision to give her the Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia, which is “awarded for eminent achievement and merit of the highest degree in service to Australia or humanity at large,” sparked a massive backlash. The award is set to be given Tuesday, on Australia Day.

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Views on Court have changed since her playing days on the tennis courts. Court, now a Pentecostal minister, has been outspoken about her disagreement with LGBT rights and same-sex marriage in Australia. Her criticisms sparked calls for Australia to rename the Margaret Court Arena, which is one of the venues for the annual Australian Open.

The decision to award Court the honor on Australia Day received criticisms from Australian politicians. Former tennis star Martina Navratilova didn’t outright criticize the decision but retweeted Court scrutiny.

“I don’t give out those gongs. That’s not a matter for me; that’s for others. You might want to speak to them about why they think those views, which are disgraceful, hurtful and cost lives, should be honored,” Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews said Friday, via The Guardian.

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Andrews added more in a tweet.

Anthony Albanese, of the Australian Labour Party, also tweeted about the decision.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison didn’t comment on Court’s honor.

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“I can’t comment on an award that is done through an independent process that hasn’t been announced or I have no official knowledge of those things,” he said.

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