The Loop: Nick Kyrgios reflects on Wimbledon defeat, Jason Roberts acquitted of police murders, and a hiker films a huge avalanche

Hi there. It's Monday, July 11, and you're reading The Loop, a quick wrap-up of today's news.

Let's start here: Kyrgios looks back at his Wimbledon campaign

In case you missed it — Nick Kyrgios lost the Wimbledon men's singles final to Serbia's Novak Djokovic in the early hours of this morning (Australian time), after four hard-fought sets.

After the match wrapped up, the Australian reflected on the efforts of Djokovic, who he had never lost to before.

"Hats off to him," Kyrgios said.

"That was a hell of a match. I thought I served well. I put myself in a position to win, but I just wasn't able to play those clutch points well at all today."

Kyrgios said the toughest thing for him was Djokovic's relentless pressure.

"In big moments, it just felt like he was never rattled," Kyrgios said.

"I feel like that's his greatest strength. He just looks completely within himself the whole time."

On Instagram, Kyrgios said his run at the tournament was a "hell of a ride".

Today we heard a lot about COVID-19 boosters and variants

Here are a few things to know:

• From today, Australians over the age of 30 are eligible to get a fourth COVID-19 vaccine dose
• The nation's expert vaccine advisory body ATAGI says it recommends anyone older than 50 should receive a fourth dose
• ATAGI says the number of people with the virus has increased in recent months and new Omicron subvariants are exacerbating the number of illnesses

• People are getting reinfected earlier than before amid the rise of the BA.4 and BA.5 strains, so Australia's top public health officers have recommended that the period of time in which a COVID-positive person is considered immune after infection be slashed from 12 weeks to 28 days

Australians aged over 30 years to be eligible for fourth COVID-19 vaccine dose.

News you might have missed

• Former senior bureaucrat Jenny West has told a NSW parliamentary inquiry how she was offered the $500,000 per year role as the state's trade commissioner to the US before the offer was withdrawn and the job controversially offered to former deputy premier John Barilaro. Here are five key moments from the evidence Ms West gave today, and here's the moment she said she was told the position was "a present for someone"

Former preferred trade role candidate says she was told position was 'a present for someone'.

• Former Sydney teacher Chris Dawson is now awaiting a verdict after the conclusion of his lengthy murder trial, with the judge indicating he hopes to deliver a verdict "relatively quickly". Mr Dawson has pleaded not guilty to murdering his first wife, Lynette Dawson, who vanished from the city's northern beaches in January 1982

Here's what Australia has been searching for online

• Jason Roberts. The Melbourne man, who was accused of the murders of two Victorian police officers in 1998, has left prison for the first time in decades after being acquitted in a retrial. Today, after three months and 91 witnesses, a jury found him not guilty of the murders of Sergeant Gary Silk and Senior Constable Rodney Miller

Jason Roberts leaves court after he was acquitted of the 1998 murders of police officers Gary Silk and Rodney Miller. (ABC News)

• NSW flag. The New South Wales government has backflipped on its decision to spend around $25 million to install a new flag pole that would permanently fly the Aboriginal flag on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. After public backlash, the government will now replace the bridge's existing NSW state flag with the Aboriginal flag, and says it will allocate the money it would have used on a new flag pole to Indigenous initiatives

The Aboriginal flag will fly next to the Australian flag permanently atop Sydney Harbour Bridge.  (AAP: Bianca De Marchi )

One more thing: Check out this footage of an avalanche in Kyrgyzstan

Footage of a huge avalanche in Kyrgyzstan's Tian Shan mountains has gone viral, and for good reason.

The video, shared by trekker Harry Shimmin on Instagram, shows snow and rock moving down a mountain in the distance, before reaching hikers who were forced to take cover.

"Once it was over the adrenaline rush hit me hard. I was only covered in a small layer of snow, without a scratch. I felt giddy," Shimmin wrote in his post.

"I knew the rest of the group was further away from the avalanche so should be okay … It was only later we realised just how lucky we'd been. If we had walked five minutes further on our trek, we would all be dead."

Here's the clip in all of its terrifying glory:

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We'll be back tomorrow with another avalanche of news coverage.

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