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ATP player Kokkinakis calls Rybakina “the nicest girl ever”

Australian tennis player Thanasi Kokkinakis recently tweeted some nice words about the newly-crowned Indian Wells champion Elena Rybakina, possibly trying to attract her attention.

The reigning Wimbledon champion Rybakina won her first WTA 1000 title this past weekend at the BNP Paribas Open and ATP player Kokkinakis took to social media to share how he feels about her.

“Rybakina looks like the nicest girl ever,” the 26-year-old wrote on Twitter. Is he publicly hitting on her? Kokkinakis assures us he’s not, as he also wrote in replies to his tweet: “Not having a crack.