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The Briton was furious when Tsitsipas took a break that ran
close to eight minutes during their five-set first-round clash
on Monday, which he felt disrupted his game and swayed the
outcome.
The 2012 Flushing Meadows champion was still stewing a day
later.
"Fact of the day. It takes Stefanos Tsitsipas twice as long to
go the bathroom as it takes Jeff Bezos to fly into space.
Interesting," the 34-year-old Scot tweeted on Tuesday.
Tsitsipas, 23, had pointed out after the match that he had not
broken any rules, as there are no time limits on bathroom
breaks. "If there's something that he has to tell me, we should
speak the two of us to kind of understand what went wrong," he
said.
His incensed younger brother, Petros, responded to Murray's
broadside on Twitter: "Never expected this kind of behaviour,
from a supposedly tennis legend!"
Murray had called his opponent's bathroom breaks "nonsense",
saying that he had been warned by his team about such tactics
before the match.
During the fifth set, where Murray was broken in the first game,
the former world number one could be heard shouting "it is
cheating" towards his box.
World number three Tsitsipas took the seven minute-plus break
before the decisive fifth set. He also took another bathroom
break before the third set and a medical timeout in the run-up
to the fourth.
He will take on world number 44 Adrian Mannarino of France in
the second round on Wednesday.
The bathroom breaks were subject to continued debate at the U.S.
Open on Tuesday, as American Reilly Opelka took aim at the
tennis media.
"The press that have never stepped foot on a tennis court in
their life, have never been in the environment, couldn't last 30
minutes out in this humidity, in this heat," he said, adding
that he highly doubted Tsitsipas was getting coached.
But Alexander Zverev, who objected to Tsitsipas leaving the
court during their Cincinnati semi-final earlier this month,
said the behaviour was unacceptable from someone of his stature
in the sport.
"It's happening every match. It's not normal," he said. "He's
one of the best in the world at what he does. I do not believe
that he needs to do that."
(Reporting by Dhruv Munjal in Bengaluru, additional reporting by
Amy Tennery; Editing by Pravin Char and Clare Fallon)
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