Nick Kyrgios was marvelous last week. He has crushed serves and forehands in Cincinnati. He has also crushed his pressers, offering up a bouquet of quotables including that he needs to get up for matches on back courts with 15 fans on hand as much as he gets up for main-stage showings against the titans of tennis. He has shared openly that David Ferrer gave him the advice four short years ago, when Kyrgios was 18, to "learn to suffer."

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Kyrgios did not suffer greatly in Cincinnati, even with losing a final showdown against Grigor Dimitrov. The Australian wowed crowds and offered up high-fives down a line of front-row viewers after particular scintillating shotmaking.

He also danced. After flipping a forehand pass out of giant Ivo Karlovic's reach, he delivered a little jam of a shuffle:

That's when, good-naturedly so, Andy Murray came for him.

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"For someone who parties so much id [sic] expect some better moves," Murray quipped on Kyrgios' Instagram post.

Never one to leave a line hanging, Kyrgios fired back, "I have no idea what you are talking about.. straight from the water bottle.."

Thus even in his absence, Murray makes his presence felt.

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