Will Tennis Hot-Heads be Dropped Like Hot Potatoes?

Bernard Tomic, Nick Kyrgios, Thanasi Kokkinakis. Apart from being Australian tennis players, all three have one other thing in common - they don't know how to reign in their aggression and have been branded hot-heads.

The latest incident saw 19-year-old Kokkinakis almost come to blows with American Ryan Harrison at the first qualifying round of the Cincinnati Masters. Kokkinakis was apparently not happy with the umpire overruling certain calls in favour of Harrison and made it a point to continually try and get under Harrison's skin.

Harrison later echoed the sentiments of perhaps the entire tennis world when he said, "These kids, they've got to get under control. They're going to get hurt. He's (Kokkinakis) 19. If he (Kokkinakis) wants to get into it, I will bury him. Wawrinka should've decked Kyrgios, and I should deck that kid."

Interestingly, Kokkinakis is a close friend of Kyrgios', who was criticised by the entire tennis world when he made an extremely obscene comment about Stanislas Wawrinka's girlfriend while playing the Swiss in Montreal. Kyrgios knew there were microphones there. He knew his comment would be heard clearly. He later said, "He (Wawrinka) was getting a bit lippy at me so I don't know, it was just in the moment sort of stuff. I just said it."

His comment about Wawrinka's girlfriend saw the 20 year old being slapped with a 4700 pound fine. It was also a new low for the 20 year old Kyrgios, who has fast earned a reputation for being the biggest bad boy on the tour. In fact according to reports, Wawrinka and Kyrgios were involved in a dressing room bust-up after the incident.

Twitter was abuzz with the incident and former and present tennis greats reacted sharply.

Men's World Number 1 Novak Djokovic said, "There's no excuse for directing your tantrums to your opponent, especially to someone that is not even there. I think he (Kyrgios) is going to learn a lesson the hard way."

Incredibly, Kyrgios' brother Cristos was cut-off mid interview on an Australian radio show when he said something very inappropriate, again about Wawrinka's girlfriend. Ironically, he was on the show to try and defend his brother.

22 year old Bernard Tomic has already had an extremely turbulent career. He was in fact arrested last month in Miami for failing to follow police orders during a penthouse party. He was also dropped from the Aussie Davis Cup team after he criticised Australian tennis administrators.

The really sad part is that these are all very talented players and their talent is being completely overshadowed by their completely unnecessary aggression. The likes of John McEnroe and Andre Agassi also had a lot of aggression, but the good outweighed the bad in their case. These youngsters are in danger of letting their over-aggressive nature ruin their careers. Will the rising Aussie youngsters be able to focus on just pure, simple, good tennis and leave their Mr Hyde alter egos in the locker rooms? After all, they are making enemies on the tour very fast.

According to some Australian sports commentators, there could come a day when Kyrgios and players like him are booed all over the world. So will the tennis world drop these hot heads like hot potatoes?