Nick Kyrgios claims he was initially refused his credentials at Wimbledon on Friday because he didn’t have a valid form of ID. Everybody entering the All England Club are required to bring identification when picking up their pass to gain entry to the grounds.
However, Kyrgios found himself in a sticky situation where he was not able to prove who he was, despite reaching the final here in 2022.
“Look, I’m not normally one to say: ‘Do you know who I am?’ when I’m trying to get into events,” Kyrgios said on talkSPORT.
“But today, my agent was like okay, let’s try and pick up your credentials just to save someone a ground pass and I was sitting there and she asked: ‘Do you have a photo ID?’
“I had just got a new phone, because it was broken, I didn’t have any photos… and she laughed before she asked me, so she clearly knew who I was but was just following protocol.
“I said, ‘do you reckon you could get me in and give me my credentials just one time’ and she was like: ‘No.’ I went: ‘Seriously? Please’, but they said they can’t do that.”
Kyrgios was eventually given his pass and then complained about being told to empty his pockets on the way through the game.
“Then I got body searched,” he added. “They told me to put all of my stuff down and I got body searched.”
Kyrgios is not competing at SW19 this fornight because he is struggling with a wrist injury that he plagued him for the past two years.
But he has attended two of Naomi Osaka’s matches, sitting in her box with the rest of her team.
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