Tennis star Nick Kyrgios to feature in spicy pickleball show with reality TV star Sophie Stonehouse

Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios has decided to embrace his ‘bad boy’ label in his new life without social media influencer Costeen Hatzi.

The relationship between Hatzi and Kyrgios broke down at the end of March, closing the curtain on a romance that started in 2021.

Now Kyrgios is moving on, however, and is set to feature in a new show with reality TV star Sophie Stonehouse (of Too Hot To Handle fame).

The show is called Smash City and is based around a pickleball competition ... but there is an adult-theme twist and it is being hyped as “spicy entertainment”.

It will be a four-part series with eight OnlyFans celebrities involved, playing various pickleball games (that will be “silly and suggestive”) for $20,000.

Kyrgios and Stonehouse are hosting, while adult actress Rachel Starr will umpire the games.

The eight OnlyFans creators involved are reality show contestants Nathan Webb and Joey Joy (also Too Hot to Handle), sports stars Adi Spiegelman (a former professional tennis player and model) and Sachia Vickery (US tennis player), and models Nellie Cronen, Kayla Fitzgerald, Trippie Bri, and Steph Mi.

The show has a launch date of June 13.

Meanwhile, questions are being asked about the company Kyrgios has recently been keeping.

Just yesterday, Kyrgios made headlines after featuring in a photo with rapper Ay Huncho.

The photo was taken at the Frucition nightclub in Canberra earlier this month, and it sparked headlines because Ay Huncho is allegedly a member of an underworld clan in Sydney.

“Keep waiting on it @ayhuncho,” Kyrgios captioned the photo, which Ay Huncho re-shared.

Ay Huncho’s real name is Ali Younes.

Younes is out on $1.8 million bail as he faces kidnapping and assault charges and was also involved in a fight at Parklea Correctional Centre in June last year.

In the property game, Kyrgios is hoping to fetch close to $2m for the three-bedroom, two-bathroom rooftop unit with access to a pool in Kensington, which he bought for $1.6m in 2022.

The asking price for the unit he used as his Sydney base is $1.8m.

The woman he had been spending his time there with in the Harbour city, Hatzi, said she had moved on from the troubled sports star.

“I’m loving my work and doing content every day,” she told The Herald Sun.

“We haven’t spoken. Relationships come to an end. I believe it’s for the best.

“I hope he finds peace and happiness within himself.”

On the court, Kyrgios is set to play in the French Open for the first time in eight years in the doubles draw with Jordan Thompson.

He is not expected to head to Roland Garros until later this month, having last played there in a second-round loss in 2017.

- With The Nightly