Angry Murray: Tennis star Andy Murray fires battle of bathroom break into orbit
- The Scottish tennis player said it took Greek opponent Stefanos Tsitsipas longer on bathroom breaks than it took billionaire Jeff Bezos to reach outer space
- Murray was furious when Tsitsipas took a break that ran close to eight minutes during their five-set first-round US Open clash in New York on Monday
Scottish tennis star Andy Murray launched a fresh rocket at his US Open conqueror Stefanos Tsitsipas on Tuesday, griping that the Greek player took longer on bathroom breaks than it took billionaire Jeff Bezos to reach outer space.
The Briton was furious when Tsitsipas took a break that ran close to eight minutes during their five-set first-round clash on Monday, which he felt disrupted his game and swayed the outcome.
The 2012 Flushing Meadows champion was still stewing a day later.
“Fact of the day. It takes Stefanos Tsitsipas twice as long to go the bathroom as it takes Jeff Bezos to fly into space. Interesting,” the 34-year-old Scot tweeted on Tuesday.
Tsitsipas, 23, had pointed out after the match that he had not broken any rules, as there are no time limits on bathroom breaks. “If there’s something that he has to tell me, we should speak the two of us to kind of understand what went wrong,” he said.
His incensed younger brother, Petros, responded to Murray’s broadside on Twitter: “Never expected this kind of behaviour, from a supposedly tennis legend!”
