Updates from a star-studded day of tennis at Melbourne ParkAsh Barty can buck trend of home pressureAny thoughts? Email or tweet @JPHowcroft 11.41pm GMT
Russell Jackson is on Kyrgios-watch all tournament, and he has set the scene superbly with this tremendous column.
There has always been blame on both sides of the Kyrgios “debate”, such as it is. The Nick knockers veer between sour-faced fogeyism and borderline white supremacy, while the boosters ignore Kyrgios’s worst behaviour and pretend that a
basketball jersey is a personality. In the middle somewhere lies an infuriating, funny, petulant, brilliant, inconsistent, even loveable young man, and one less easy to categorise.
Related: Nick Kyrgios: how tennis's loudest talent became a hero to the quiet Australians | Russell Jackson 11.40pm GMT