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The ATP Tour puts Aussie Nick Kyrgios on a short leash after his transgressions at the Rogers Cup in Montreal
The verdict is in from the ATP Tour on Nick Kyrgios' various Montreal transgressions.
And it came rather quickly; the 20-year-old Australian's misdeeds have been elevated to the "Aggravated behaviour" category.
In a compromise that doesn't have him miss time but does leave a figurative noose hanging over his head for the next six months, The ATP has fined the volatile and volubile Aussie an additional $25,000 US for his various bad deeds - payable only if he transgresses again in the six-month period ending Feb. 24, 2016.
If there are further evil deed-doings, he also would assessed a 28-day ban– well, assuming the appeals process he would surely undertake wasn't successful.
Basically, Kyrgios can't incur any more fines for verbal or physical abuse during that period. He also can't accumulate fines adding up to more than $5,000 US for any other misdeeds at ATP Tour events.
"This incident was egregious and reflected poorly on our sport. Nick has expressed regret, and the best result would be that he learns a lesson from this incident and that he understands he is responsible to the Tour and to fellow players for both his actions and his words," was the quote from Gayle Bradshaw, the ATP Tour executive vice-president for rules and regulations.
Is it enough? Well, aggrieved party Stan Wawrinka probably doesn't think so. He wanted the book thrown at him.
His rumoured girlfriend, Donna Vekic, probably doesn't think so, either. She said during the Challenger tournament in Vancouver last week that he has yet to apologize to her personally.
It is slightly clever in the sense that Kyrgios can't whine and moan about the unfairness of it all; the ATP's disciplinary people have left his fate up to him.
If he behaves, he's off the hook. If he doesn't – knowing what the consequences are this time, unlike during previous on-court incidents – he can only blame himself.
What remains to be seen is how much wiggle room the various umpires will give him, because none of them want to be the guy (or gal) who is responsible for the fine that results in the more serious punishment kicking in. If you do that, on what's essentally a judgment call that varies with each umpire, you're taking away a man's living.
So beyond how interesting it will be to see how Kyrgios reacts, how he tries to tone down his natural reactions, it might be even more fascinating to watch the chair umpires' reactions when and if he slips up.
Suspended bans are not unheard of; they happen from time to time although they haven't always ended up public knowledge.
One example that comes to mind involved former world No. 1 Marcelo Rios of Chile, a prickly customer if ever there was one. Rios got drunk and disorderly at an official tournament function, was involved in an altercation with security and, uh, answered nature's call outside on the wall of the building.
A more serious case was that of Belgium's Xavier Malisse.
Malisse was defaulted from the Miami event in 2005, relieved of his prize money and fined, after throwing a ball at a line judge and hitting her on the arm during a first-round match against David Ferrer (one in which he was leading). What else? Verbal abuse of an official, kicking over a chair and smashing a racquet. He received a 28-day ban (not suspended) after being defaulted from that event. And he faced another 28-day ban if he received any more fines for acting up the rest of that season.
The official you see Malisse abusing in that video is the very same Gayle Bradshaw who was in charge of adjudicating the Kyrgios case.
Malisse actually didn't miss all that much. His suspension was announced about a month after Miami, in late April. He missed the clay-court season after Barcelona, but was back for the French Open. He didn't miss any more time the rest of that year, so he must have been a good boy.
On the women's side, it doesn't often happen to actual players, more to crazy tennis father types – and to Russian tennis guru Shamil Tarpischev, who was banned for a year from any "involvement with the WTA Tour" after some tasteless jokes he made on television about Venus and Serena Williams.
Tarpischev probably considers that a reward, not a punishment.
After her threats against a lineswoman in the semi-finals of the 2009 US Open, Serena Williams got the "aggravated behaviour" fine and also received a suspended ban. That was at a Grand Slam event, though, so the adjudication was by the International Tennis Federation's Grand Slam committee.
Williams was on probation for two years, but that only applied to the four major events. Her fine of $82,500 US (it would have doubled if she acted up again) was the biggest ever imposed. It also was less than a quarter of what she earned in that tournament.
American Jeff Tarango, whose now-ex wife Benedicte famously slapped umpire Bruno Rebeuh in the wake of an ugly incident at Wimbledon in 1995, ended up paying about a quarter of that after he appealed his own fine. But he also was banned from the tournament the following year.
