Watch: Nick Kyrgios Nearly Hits Ballboy After Smashing Racquet Following Indian Wells Loss To Rafael Nadal

A ballboy was nearly hit by Nick Kyrgios' flying racquet after the Australian hurled it at the ground following his quarterfinal loss to Rafael Nadal at Indian Wells.

A ballboy was nearly hit by Nick Kyrgios' flying racquet after the Australian hurled it at the ground following his quarterfinal loss to Rafael Nadal at Indian Wells. Kyrgios lost 7-6 (7/0), 4-7, 6-4 to Nadal and after shaking hands with the Spaniard proceeded to smash his racquet on the ground but it rebounded and flew towards a ballboy, who dodged it just in the nick of time. The video of the incident quickly went viral on social media. The Australian later shared a screenshot of his text messages where he apologised to the ballboy and promised to give him a racquet. That came really close! pic.twitter.com/8Bg4fJYLQG Made a new friend in the process accidents happen but we can go out of our way to make things better pic.twitter.com/G0gI5QpmBy

Kyrgios, however, lashed out when he was questioned about the incident in the post-match press conference.

He insisted the ugly incident was barely worthy of comment, and not on the scale, for example, of ATP colleague Alexander Zverev's meltdown in Mexico, that saw the German fined $40,000 for bashing an umpire's chair with his racquet.