Nick Kyrgios 'given detention' by former school over his bad behaviour

The Australian has found himself making headlines for the wrong reasons and his former school aren't impressed

Nick Kyrgios (GETTY IMAGES)

Nick Kyrgios, the controversial Australian tennis player, has been given 'detention' by his former school due to his unruly behaviour on the tennis circuit.

The world No 30 has been making headlines for the wrong reasons this year, most notably for his petulant displays during a run to the fourth round at Wimbledon and his shocking on-court comments about the girlfriend of Stan Wawrinka.

Teachers at his former high school in Canberra have not been impressed and have taken action until the 20-year-old shows signs of improvement. A photograph of Kyrgios, which sat alongside former pupils including Celtic footballer Tom Rogic, Hockeyroos defender Anna Flanagan and NSW cricketer Ryan Carters, has been removed from the hall of fame.

Radford College principal Fiona Godfrey explained to Fairfax Media: “He’s had a temporary departure from the hall [of fame], he’s actually on detention in the director of sport’s office at the moment and we’re keeping him there until his behaviour improves – which we’re very confident that will happen given that he was a Radford student.

“I was speaking to the director of sport who said he can remember him vividly. He was a lovely bloke at school and he also vividly remembers him playing a large tennis competition involving staff and funnily enough he won it.

“He only has to string together a few good tournaments and we’ll be happy to put him back up there.

“All good sportspeople are an influence and particularly being from Canberra the kids all follow him quite closely and we want them to have good role models.”

Kyrgios was in trouble just last week for a foul-mouthed rant at the Shanghai Masters.

He was fined $1,500 (£984) for the outburst, moving him closer to a potential 28-day ban that will be triggered if he incurs $5,000 in fines before February.