Boris Becker hits Nick Kyrgios with a savage comeback after Aussie tennis bad boy said the legend wouldn’t cut it in today’s game

• Pair had been feuding for years before Becker’s outburst 
• Kyrgios said greats of the game aren’t as good as modern stars   
• Six-time Grand Slam champion issued a withering response 

Boris Becker’s intense feud with Nick Kyrgios has gone up another notch with the legend blasting the Aussie for saying he couldn’t cut it in today’s name.

Kyrgios recently said claims Becker and other top stars from his era would still excel in the sport were ‘absurd’ because tennis has evolved so much since the German’s heyday in the 1980s and ’90s.

‘The game was so slow back then,’ the 28-year-old told The Athletic this week.

‘I’ve watched Boris Becker and I’m not saying they weren’t good in their time, but to say that they would be just as good now, it’s absurd.

‘A big serve back then was like 197 to 200[kmh]. People like me, we serve 220 consistently, to corners. It’s a whole different ball game.’

Becker (pictured at the ATP World Tour finals last month) wasn’t having it when Kyrgios said it’s ‘absurd’ to think he would be able to measure up in modern tennis

The Aussie has had a long-running feud with the German six-time Grand Slam champion, at one stage calling him a ‘doughnut’ 

‘But serve and volley, to do it all the time now, you need to be serving 220, because if you serve anything less than 220, bro, Djokovic eats you alive.’

Those remarks drew a withering response from Becker on the social media platform X.

‘Nick makes a lot of noise about tennis lately!?! Why does he speak about a sport he apparently hate,’ the six-time Grand Slam winner wrote.

‘Fact-check Nick has never won a major championship as a player or coach … so where is any credibility coming from?’

‘Speak to your @OnlyFans about many things but [not] tennis!!!’

Soon after the post went up, Kyrgios replied with a tweet of his own: ‘One thing is for sure I’m not gonna be sitting here in 20-30 years time, claiming that I could compete and compare to the new kids on the block. It’s definitely an ego thing.’

Becker was one of the biggest stars in the sport during his heyday after creating history when he won the 1985 Wimbledon men’s singles title aged just 17 (pictured)

While Becker acknowledged that Kyrgios won the Australian Open men’s doubles title in 2022, he also slammed the Aussie for saying Lleyton Hewitt ‘destroyed’ tennis great Pete Sampras at the US Open because his countryman was ‘fir first prototype of someone who could return serve’.

‘He made Sampras look like s**t,’ Kyrgios said. 

‘And what would Djokovic do to someone like Sampras? It would be a cleanup. If Hewitt was doing it, Djokovic would destroy him. He would eat him alive.’ 

Becker countered that by writing: ‘Trying to compare generations… Laver v Federer, Borg v Nadal, Sampras v Djokovic!?! I am not even gonna mention McEnroe, Conners, Lendl, Agassi, Courier, Edberg, Wilander ,Kuerten, Bruguera, Rafter, Hewitt and many more.’

The blow-up is the latest in a long series of insults the pair have hit each other with.

In 2020 Becker called Kyrgios a ‘rat’ for calling out tennis players who flouted Covid-19 rules during the pandemic, with the Aussie hitting back by calling him a ‘doughnut’.

That same year Becker told the tennis bad boy to ‘shut up for once in another outburst over the pandemic, and when Kyrgios made a social media post featuring a photo of himself playing with Team World in the Laver Cup and captioned it ‘different breed’, Becker replied: ‘In your dreams.’

Kyrgios (pictured with girlfriend Costeen Hatzi) hit back at Becker’s comments, saying the German was on an ego trip

In January this year the 56-year-old blasted Kyrgios as he questioned whether he was telling the truth about the knee injury that kept him out of this year’s Australian open.

Becker brought up the fact Kyrgios had played an exhibition match against Novak Djokovic shortly before he announced his knee had ruined any chance of playing in his home Grand Slam.

”It didn’t look that way on Friday night when he played two sets against Djokovic,’ he said. 

‘He talked about injuries beforehand, but to the ankle and not to the knee.

‘But what Nick Kyrgios says and what he does are often two different things.’

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