4 min readUpdated: Jan 30, 2026 07:28 PM IST While the men’s semifinals at Australian Open were hitting the high notes of competitiveness, things got extremely prickly after a doubles quarter finals juniors clash on 1573 Arena on Thursday, and anger melted nerves. The Australian pair of Ymerali Ibraimi and Cooper Kose had just beaten Colombia’s Juan Miguel Bolivar Idarraga and USA’s Vihaan Reddy in straight sets, when the Aussies traded words as celebrations., soon after shaking hands post the 6-2, 6-4 result. Channel Nine said something said by either Bolivar Idarraga or Reddy at the net angered Ibraimi, who pointed at the beaten combine saying, “Who’s a clown?” “Leave it, leave it,” his partner Kose is said to have responded, but Ibraimi then went towards the bench and added: “Enjoy your flight back to Colombia, alright. How you disrespected me … you never do that to me ever again.” While the chair umpire tried to intervene, the Aussie went beserk. “You know what you did (during the match),” Ibraimi was quoted as saying by …