(VIDEO) Kyrgios complains to chair umpire about smell of marijuana fumes during crazy Bonzi win at US Open

Nick Kyrgios saw off Benjamin Bonzi to reach the third round of the US Open in a crazy game which saw the 23rd seed win 7-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 in the end.

As ever with Kyrgios who will face J.J. Wolf next, it wasn't short on drama with the Aussie ace complaining bizarrely about people in the crowd apparently smoking marijuana.

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"You don't want to remind anyone not to do it or anything. No?" A visibly irritated Kyrgios said.

"It was f***** marijuana. Marijuana. It was smoke. Obviously I'm not going to complain about food smells, obviously not.

"Obviously when athletes are moving side-to-side and when they have asthma already it's probably not ideal."

Speaking in his press conference, he said that being asthmatic doesn't help in this case.

"People don't know. I'm a heavy asthmatic. When I'm running side-to-side, I'm struggling to breathe, probably not something I want to be breathing in in between points.

"US Open, it's a very different vibe to everywhere else. I feel like Wimbledon was so proper. Australian Open, you kind of expect it there, being an Aussie. But here, it's just like noisy. Point in, point out, I can't barely hear. Half the time I can't even hear my team because it's so noisy all the time. Ashe was unbelievably noisy. I couldn't hear anything. Constant jitter. Things going off, sirens.

"In Armstrong today, hearing trains and people. For someone that's struggled to focus in my career, I'm really trying hard to put my head down and play point by point, try to dig myself out of some certain situations. It's hard because there's a lot of distractions. Obviously a lot of heckling going on as well. People are saying things."

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Nick Kyrgios just complained to the chair umpire at @usopen that he smelled marijuana coming from the crowd

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Fiollow up: announcer claims marijuana smell coming from loading dock and he saw the culprits puffing. Also says he’s never heard a player complain about weed smoke before…

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