Nick Kyrgios steps out with a VERY cryptic new tattoo – just after tearing strips off Bernard Tomic
Nick Kyrgios steps out with a VERY cryptic new tattoo – just after tearing strips off ‘dumb’ and ‘irrelevant’ Bernard Tomic after he challenged him to boxing fight
- Tomic was spotted laughing with mates as they headout out to shoot hoops
- He was showing his new ink on his left calf that has a strange message
- The fresh tattoo reads: ‘Give a man a mask and he will become his true self’
- It might be a dig at keyboard warriors and was famously penned by Oscar Wilde
Aussie tennis star Nick Kyrgios has stepped out with fresh new ink on his leg, just weeks after getting a huge new piece of art etched into his arm.
The polarising tennis player was snapped heading out to play basketball with mates before he and his girlfriend Costeen Hatzi head overseas.
Kyrgios opted out of the French Open but is set to contest Wimbledon, which starts on June 27.
His new ink reads: ‘Give a man a mask and he will become his true self’.
Kyrgios heads out with mates to play some basketball with his new ink on display
The tattoo reads: ‘Give a man a mask and he will become his true self’
The saying essentially means that anonymity gives people the freedom to show their true colours without fear of judgement from others.
The saying is a variation on words famously penned by Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde.
He said: ‘Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.’
Kyrgios is no stranger to ink, having unveiled his basketball-themed arm sleeve in 2020 that features a tribute to Kobe Bryant, an image of LeBron James and Michael Jordan’s famous Nike shoes.
‘Basketball is my life, I play tennis, but I follow basketball every day,’ Kyrgios posted on Instagram at the time.
More recently he had a piece done on his left arm showing an adult male lion drinking from a pool of water that shows the reflection of a lion cub.
While Kyrgios will be confident heading into Wimbledon after earlier declaring himself to be the best grass court tennis player in the world, the same cannot be said for compatriot Tomic.
The former Davis Cup teammates have been carrying out a social media war lately, with Tomic challenging Kyrgios to a tennis showdown that would see each player put up $1million in a winner-takes-all clash – and oddly, a boxing match.
Former friends and Davis Cup teammates Kyrgios and Tomic have been at war with each other online and Tomic has challenged Kyrgios to tennis and boxing matches
Kyrgios has dismissed any chance of those events happening, saying he has ‘bigger fish to fry’ – including his Wimbledon opponents.
‘When he’s challenging me for boxing matches – like first of all, I don’t know who’s going to put up $1 million for him because he’s dead broke. Second of all, I have bigger fish to fry at the moment. I’m trying to get ready for Wimbledon. US Open. I’ve got off court contracts, tournaments still pay me to show up,’ Kyrgios said.
‘And I don’t think that’s happening for him at the moment. But maybe one day, I would love to challenge him in there. I feel like I’ve got him on fitness.’
For all the latest Sports News Click Here
