Nick Kyrgios

The Australian tennis player pleaded guilty to pushing ex-girlfriend Chiara Passari in a late night argument in Canberra in 2021.

I know it wasn’t OK and I’m sincerely sorry for the hurt I caused,” he said. Kyrgios later issued a public apology. In a written statement he said he was grateful to the court for dismissing the charge.

The Australian tennis star avoids a criminal conviction over the incident in Canberra in 2021.

You are a young man who happens to hit a tennis ball particularly well." The couple reconciled and resumed a relationship, but after they broke up, Ms Passari made a formal complaint in December 2021. Lawyer Michael Kukulies-Smith argued Mr Kyrgios had been trying to de-escalate the fight by calling an Uber, and had repeatedly tried to "lawfully" move Ms Passari away from the car.

Canberra tennis star Nick Kyrgios has avoided a conviction after pleading guilty to assaulting his former girlfriend outside her Kingston…

“And that’s the advice I give everybody, not just Nicholas Kyrgios in my court.” “You knew you were being triggered in some way and needed to leave the situation,” she said. Magistrate Campbell said Kyrgios had clearly “acted poorly in the heat of the moment”. She explained this was a “very straightforward matter” that was at the lower end of offending. The argument continued, with Kyrgios telling her to “leave me the f*** alone” and “just f***ing piss off”. After telling her, “I’m serious, I’m going to …”, Kyrgios pushed her with “sufficient force” that Ms Passari fell onto the ground.

The tennis star fronted the ACT Magistrates Court on Friday where a bid to have the assault charge thrown o...

But I've found that getting help and working on myself has helped me to feel better and to be better." "I respect today's ruling and am grateful to the court for dismissing the charges without conviction. "Mental health is tough.

Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios has issued an apology after having his assault charge dismissed despite admitting to shoving his ex-girlfriend during a ...

During their conversation, which Ms Passari recorded without Kyrgios’s knowledge, he said he was remorseful for his actions. But Ms Campbell said the assault was not premeditated and was instead an “impulsive and unfortunate response” to an incident which appeared to be a “one-off” and which she detailed by reading out a statement of sworn facts. Ms Passari was standing in the door of an Uber preventing Kyrgios from leaving as they continued arguing and he told her to “leave me the f--- alone” before pushing her with “significant force” so that she fell to the ground. The court heard sworn evidence from Kyrgios’s psychologist, as well as a victim impact statement from Ms Passari in which she said she felt “scared to be alone” after the assault and that the “trust and safety I felt with Nick no longer existed”. Ms Campbell told the court she would deal with Kyrgios’s case in the same way she would that of any other young man who was charged with a “low level assault”, irrespective of his fame for being someone who “happens to hit a tennis ball particularly well”. “I was not in a good place when this took place and I reacted to a difficult situation in a way I deeply regret,” the 27-year-old said.

Nick Kyrgios has pleaded guilty to assault after admitting he shoved over his ex-girlfriend Chiara Passari in 2021.

On crutches due to a knee injury that kept him out of the Australian Open, Kyrgios was asked when he predicted he would appear on court next. [Paul Sakkal](/by/paul-sakkal-h17jxj)is a federal politics reporter for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.Connect via and needed to get away from the situation”. “It was not an action to impose himself on her to win that argument, rather … Passari didn’t report the incident until 10 months later. Common assault carries a maximum sentence of two years in jail.